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Randsvd Matrices with Large Growth Factors

Posted on June 4, 2020 by

Sixty years ago James Wilkinson published his backward error analysis of Gaussian elimination for solving a linear system , where is a nonsingular matrix. He showed that in floating-point arithmetic the computed solution satisfies where is the unit roundoff and … Continue reading →

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1984 Symposium in Honour of James Wilkinson

Posted on May 19, 2020 by

In September 1984 a two-day Symposium on Computational Mathematics–State of the Art was held at Argonne National Laboratory in honour of James Hardy Wilkinson on his 65th birthday. Wilkinson was one of the leading figures in 20th century numerical analysis. … Continue reading →

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The Argonne Tapes

Posted on June 5, 2019 by

A few weeks ago, I was in contact with Chris Paige, an emeritus Professor of Computer Science at McGill University, Montreal. I mentioned that Sven Hammarling and I are collecting information and memorabilia about the numerical analyst James Hardy Wilkinson … Continue reading →

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Advances in Numerical Linear Algebra Conference and James Hardy Wilkinson Centenary

Posted on January 31, 2019 by

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Hardy Wilkinson, FRS. Wilkinson developed the theory and practice of backward error analysis for floating-point computation, and developed, analyzed, and implemented in software many algorithms in numerical linear algebra. … Continue reading →

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