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James H. Wilkinson

English mathematician (1919-1986) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 67

James Hardy Wilkinson FRS was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. In 1970 he won the ACM Turing Award.

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1987Chauvenet PrizeAward1986Died5 October 19861973Honorary Doctor of Heriot-Watt UniversityAward1970John von Neumann PrizeAwardTuring AwardAward1969Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1919Born27 September 1919

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