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James H. Wilkinson
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English mathematician (1919–1986)
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James H. Wilkinson, born James Hardy Wilkinson on 27 September 1919 in Strood, was a British mathematician and computer scientist known also as Jim Wilkinson. Educated at Trinity College, he worked in numerical linear algebra and numerical analysis at the National Physical Laboratory, Stanford University, Fort Halstead and the University of Michigan, and carried an Erdős number of 3. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Association for Computing Machinery, receiving the Turing Award, the John von Neumann Prize and the Chauvenet Prize.
Wilkinson died of a myocardial infarction on 5 October 1986 in Teddington, and his archives are held at the Computer History Museum.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
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- Mom-Bre
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1989-04-18
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,293x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,322x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,908x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,569x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,725x
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Quotes
- “Very belatedly in 1947, Darwin [Sir Charles Darwin, great-grandson of the famous Charles Darwin] agreed to set up a very small electronics group [...] It was not easy to have the imagination to foresee that computers were to become one of the most important developments of the century.”
- “He [Turing] was particularly fond of little programming tricks (some people would say that he was too fond of them to be a "good" programmer) and would chuckle with boyish good humor at any little tricks I may have used.”
- “Of course everything in computerology is new; that is at once its attraction, and its weakness. Only recently I learned that computers are revolutionizing astrology. Horoscopes by computer!”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hardy
- Family name
- Wilkinson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Strood
- Place of death
- Teddington
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Employer
- University of Michigan
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- numerical linear algebra
Show 13 more facts
- date of birth
- 1919-09-27
- date of death
- 1986-10-05
- Erdős number
- 3
- Commons category
- James H. Wilkinson
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- different from
- James Wilkinson
- name
- Jim Wilkinson
- birth name
- James Hardy Wilkinson
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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