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James H. Wilkinson

1919 - 1986

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James H. Wilkinson has received more than 117,847 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). James H. Wilkinson is the 59th most popular computer scientist (up from 73rd in 2019), the 2,126th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,496th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 120k

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  • 53.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, James H. Wilkinson ranks 59 out of 245. Before him are Edwin Catmull, Vernor Vinge, Don Norman, Warren Weaver, Larry Wall, and Ole-Johan Dahl. After him are Alfred Aho, Pierre Bézier, Ron Rivest, Jay Wright Forrester, Edward Feigenbaum, and Charles P. Thacker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, James H. Wilkinson ranks 133. Before him are Howard Keel, Henri Vidal, G. E. M. Anscombe, Félix Gaillard, Pierre Gamarra, and Salomon Morel. After him are Franco Rossi, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Franjo Kuharić, Albert Batteux, Mad Mike Hoare, and José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 1986, James H. Wilkinson ranks 113. Before him are Judith Resnik, Scatman Crothers, Megumu Tamura, Vitaly Abalakov, Dick Scobee, and Fumiko Enchi. After him are Oscar Zariski, Josef Kammhuber, Anatoly Marchenko, Helen B. Taussig, Hoàng Văn Thái, and Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James H. Wilkinson ranks 2,126 out of 8,785. Before him are Liam Gallagher (1972), Samantha Eggar (1939), Catherine Carey (1523), Dennis Viollet (1933), Stephen Dillane (1957), and William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748). After him are Charles Boycott (1832), Anthony Asquith (1902), John Fletcher (1579), Arnold Bax (1883), Rosamund Clifford (1150), and Walter Pater (1839).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, James H. Wilkinson ranks 6. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Edgar F. Codd (1923), Maurice Wilkes (1913), and Geoffrey Hinton (1947). After him are Robin Milner (1934), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Richard Garriott (1961), Paul Graham (1964), and David Marr (1945).

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