James Hardy Wilkinson, a Fellow of the Royal Society, 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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Death PlaceTeddington, United Kingdom 1 Notable Workbackward error analysis 1 Field
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P27 (country of citizenship): United Kingdom
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P20 (place of death): Teddington, United Kingdom
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P19 (place of birth): Strood, United Kingdom
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P800 (notable work): backward error analysis
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James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 - 5 October 1986) 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.
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James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 - 5 October 1986) 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.
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James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 - 5 October 1986) 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.
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