Nicholas Higham

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Nicholas J. Higham (born December 25, 1961 in Salford ) is a British mathematician who studies numerical mathematics .

He received his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Manchester with George G. Hall ( Nearness problems in numerical linear algebra ). He is the Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He is the director of the Manchester Institute of Mathematical Sciences (MIMS).

He is particularly concerned with the stability and accuracy of algorithms in numerical linear algebra . He wrote software for the LAPACK and NAG packages on linear algebra and MATLAB . In 2019 he received the Naylor Prize , the Fröhlich Prize in 2008 , the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis in 1988 and the Junior Whitehead Prize in 1999 . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) and the SIAM . In 2003 he received a Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society. In 2016 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts

  • Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation, SIAM, Philadelphia 2008
  • Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, SIAM, 2nd edition 2002
  • Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM, 2nd edition 1998
  • with Desmond Higham MATLAB Guide , 2nd edition, SIAM 2005 (written with his brother)
  • Published in: Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics , Princeton UP 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Higham, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Higham, Nicholas J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Salford