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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

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 110,722 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. James H. Wilkinson is the 73rd most popular computer scientist (down from 59th in 2019), the 2,502nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,351st in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Computer Scientist.

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  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, James H. Wilkinson ranks 73 out of 201. Before him are Mary Kenneth Keller, John Draper, John Henry Holland, John Cocke, Ron Rivest, and Judea Pearl. After him are Leonard Adleman, Ed Roberts, Ivar Jacobson, Martin Hellman, Geoffrey Hinton, and Stephen Cook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, James H. Wilkinson ranks 164. Before him are Anita O'Day, Franco Rossi, Tamara Toumanova, Billy Vaughn, Hans Hass, and Michèle Arnaud. After him are Rocky Graziano, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, George Gerbner, Briek Schotte, Ivan Sidorenko, and Salomon Morel. Among people deceased in 1986, James H. Wilkinson ranks 127. Before him are Peter Pears, Lili Kraus, John Alcott, David Cooper, Yasuzo Masumura, and Moderato Wisintainer. After him are Anatoly Marchenko, Herma Szabo, Roy Cohn, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Hank Mobley, and Adolfo Baloncieri.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James H. Wilkinson ranks 2,502 out of 7,765. Before him are Pete Burns (1959), Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735), Terry-Thomas (1911), Henry Pottinger (1789), George Rooke (1650), and Ioan Gruffudd (1973). After him are Malo (487), Richard Dadd (1817), Andrew Ridgeley (1963), Eric Ambler (1909), Leonard Hobhouse (1864), and David Crystal (1941).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United Kingdom

Among computer scientists born in United Kingdom, James H. Wilkinson ranks 5. Before him are Alan Turing (1912), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Edgar F. Codd (1923), and Maurice Wilkes (1913). After him are Geoffrey Hinton (1947), Stephen Wolfram (1959), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Robin Milner (1934), Gary McKinnon (1966), Richard Garriott (1961), and Martin Fowler (1963).

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