- Born
- September 27, 1919
- Died
- October 5, 1986 (aged 67)
- Known as
- mathematician, computer scientist
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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