Nicholas Higham

Nick Higham

Born	Nicholas John Higham (1961-12-25)25 December 1961 Salford, England
Died	20 January 2024(2024-01-20) (aged 62)
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Awards	Alston Householder Award VI (1987) Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (1988) Junior Whitehead Prize (1999) Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) Fröhlich Prize (2008) SIAM Fellow (2009) Naylor Prize and Lectureship (2019) IMA Gold Medal (2020) ACM Fellow (2020) George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2021) Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra (2022) Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Numerical analysis Numerical linear algebra Mathematical software
Institutions	University of Manchester Cornell University
Thesis	Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra (1985)
Doctoral advisor	George Hall

Website	nhigham.com

Nicholas John Higham FRS (25 December 1961 – 20 January 2024) was a British numerical analyst. He was Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.