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Research interests
- Numerical linear algebra, portable numerical software, LAPACK, history of punched cards, history of devices to solve linear equations
Publications
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- Latent Roots and Latent
Vectors, Adam Hilger and The University of Toronto
Press, 1970. Fifty years old in 2020!
- A Note on Modifications to the Givens Plane Rotation, J. Inst. Maths Applics, 13:215-218, 1974
- The Practical Behaviour of Linear Iterative Methods with Particular Reference to S.O.R. (with J. H. Wilkinson), NPL Report NAC 69, 1976
- A Survey of Numerical Aspects of Plane Rotations, Middlesex Polytechnic Report Maths. 1, 1977
- On Linear Systems Arising from Finite Difference Approximations to Elliptic Differential Equations (with J. H. Wilkinson), NPL Report DNACS 34/80, 1980
- Numerical Solution of the Stable, Non-negative Definite Lyapunov Equation, IMA J. of Num. Anal., 2:303-323, 1982
- A Schur Method for the Square Root of a Matrix, (with A. Björck) Linear Algebra Appl., 52/53:127-140, 1983
- How to Live Without Covariance Matrices: Numerical stability in multivariate statistical analysis, NAG Newsletter, 1:6-31, 1983
- The Singular Value Decomposition in Multivariate Statistics, ACM Signum Newsletter, 20:2-25, 1985
- The Numerical Solution of the Kalman Filtering Problem, In C. I. Byrnes and A. Lindquist, Editors, Computational and Combinatorial Methods in Systems Theory, pages 23-26. North-Holland, 1986.
- The Numerical Solution of the General Gauss-Markov Linear Model, In T. S. Durrani, J. B. Abbiss, J. E. Hudson, R. N. Madan, J. G. McWhirter and T. A. Moore, Editors, Mathematics in Signal Processing, pages 441-456, Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Numerical Solution of the Discrete-Time, Convergent, Non-Negative Definite Lyapunov Equation, Systems and Control Letters, 17:137-139, 1991
- An Algorithm for the Complete Solution of Quadratic Eigenvalue Problems (with C. J. Munro and F. Tisseur), ACM Trans. Math. Software, 39(3):18:1-18:19, 2013
- My Time at Enfield. Edited version of: T. Bourner and T. Crilly, editors. Enfield Voices: The Birth of the People's Universities. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 52-61, 2018, ISBN 978-1717559715. Available from Amazon. (Profit donated to UNICEF.)
- Sketches of the Moore Family. Extended version of: The Moore Family -- Personal Sketches. The Beatrix Potter Society Journal and Newsletter, 176:15-18, January 2018
- James Hardy Wilkinson, 27 September 1919 -- 5 October 1986
- The Influence and Contribution of Jack Dongarra to Numerical Linear Algebra, Computing in Science and Engineering, 24(4):6-11, 2022. Dedicated to Jack Dongarra on the occasion of him receiving the 2021 Turing Award.
- BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK (click to expand/contract)
- An Extended Set of FORTRAN Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (with J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz and R. J. Hanson), ACM Trans. Math. Software, 14:1-17, 1988
- An Extended Set of FORTRAN Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms: Model Implementation and Test Programs. ALGORITHM 656 (with J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz and R. J. Hanson), ACM Trans. Math. Software, 14:18-32, 1988
- A Set of Level 3 Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (with J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz and I. S. Duff), ACM Trans. Math. Software, 16:1-17, 1990
- A Set of Level 3 Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms: Model Implementation and Test Programs. ALGORITHM 679 (with J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz and I. S. Duff), ACM Trans. Math. Software, 16:18-28, 1990
- An Updated Set of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) (with L. S. Blackford, J. Demmel, J. J. Dongarra, I. S. Duff, G. Henry, M. Heroux, L. Kaufman, A. Lumsdaine, A. Petitet, R. Pozo, K. Remington and R. C. Whaley), ACM Trans. Math. Software, 28:135-151, 2002
- LAPACK Users' Guide, Third Edition (with E. Anderson, Z. Bai, C. H. Bischof, S. Blackford, J. Demmel, J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz, J. A. Greenbaum, A. McKenney and D. Sorensen), SIAM, 1999
- ScaLAPACK Users' Guide (with L. S. Blackford, J. Choi, A. Cleary, E. D'Azevedo, J. Demmel, I. Dhillon, J. J. Dongarra, G. Henry, A. Petitet, K. Stanley, D. Walker and R. C. Whaley) SIAM, 1997
- LAPACK95 Users' Guide (with V. A. Barker, L. S. Blackford, J. J. Dongarra, J. Du Croz, M. Marinova, J. Wasniewski and P. Yalamov), SIAM, 2001
- A set of Batched Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms and LAPACK routines. (with
A. Abdelfattah, T. Costa, J. Dongarra, M. Gates, A. Haidar,
N. J. Higham, J. Kurzac, P. Luszczek, S. Tomov, and M. Zounan) ACM
Trans. Math. Software, 47(3):21:1-21:23, 2021
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Co-workers
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Professional affiliations
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BLAS, LAPACK and ScaLAPACK Software links
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Other Links
- Advances in Numerical Linear Algebra: Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Nick Higham (Workshop on July 6-8, 2022)
- New Directions in Numerical Linear Algebra and High Performance Computing: Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Jack Dongarra (Workshop on July 7-8, 2021)
- Advances in Numerical Linear Algebra: Celebrating the Centenary of the birth of James H. Wilkinson (MIMS Workshop on May 29-30, 2019)
- Advances in Numerical Computation (MIMS Workshop on July 5th, 2011) Photos from the Workshop
- James Hardy Wilkinson, FRS (1919-1986) (Information on James Hardy Wilkinson curated by Nick Higham and Sven Hammarling)
- James H Wilkinson (University of St Andrews)
- James H Wilkinson (Wikipedia)
- James H Wilkinson's bibliography (pdf)
- James H Wilkinson's bibliography (bibtex from BibNet Project)
- Photos of James H Wilkinson and related photos
- Photos of Gatlinburg VII, 1977 Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra
- SIAM History pages
- John G F Francis (Wikipedia), Co-Inventor of the QR Algorithm
- Vera N Kublanovskaya (Wikipedia), Co-Inventor of the QR Algorithm
- Wallace Givens. His famous unpublished ORNL technical report of 1954 "Numerical Computation of the Characteristic Values of a Real Symmetric Matrix". Wilkinson regarded the a priori error analysis in the report to be one of the landmarks in the history of the subject. (The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem, page 343.)
- James Wallace Givens, Jr (Wikipedia)
- Alston Scott Householder (Wikipedia)
- Alston Scott Householder (SIAM History, with link to Smithsonian.org)
- BibNet Project archive Collection of bibliographic data in BibTeX format
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Cancer Links
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