Title
Wilkinson, James H. SIAM oral history
Catalog Number
102746813
Type
Document
Description
James H. Wilkinson recalls his early interest and involvement in scientific computing. He recounts his pre- electronic computer calculations at the Cambridge Maths Laboratory and at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington on applications such as supersonic flow, thermodynamics and ballistics and the importance of getting mathematicians to take numerical analysis seriously. He discusses his postwar work with Alan Turing on the design and programming of the Pilot-ACE and how it informed his work in round off error analysis and solving eigenvalue problems.
Date
1984-07-13
Contributor
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Nash, John C., Interviewer
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Wilkinson, James H., Interviewee
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Publisher
SIAM and U.S. Department of Energy
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Extent
24 p.
Format
PDF
Copyright Holder
Computer History Museum
Category
Transcription
Subject
Turing, Alan M.; Supersonic flow; Thermodynamics; Ballistics; Fragmentation; Manchester Differential Analyzer; Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC); SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer); Floating point; Numerical algebra; Eigenvalues; Rounding error; Acceleration methods; Power method; Pilot ACE
Collection Title
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) oral history collection
Credit
Gift of SIAM and the US Department of Energy
