The algebraic eigenvalue problem
The algebraic eigenvalue problem
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James Hardy Wilkinson (Fig.1) was born in Strood in Kent, England on 27 September 1919, and died at his home in Teddington, England on 5 October 1986. At school, he quickly exhibited an exceptional ability in mathematics and, at the age of only 16, won a Trinity Major Scholarship, thus enabling him to enter Cambridge University. He graduated with Distinction, gaining a First Class Honours degree in 1939 when he was still only 19. In common with many mathematicians during the Second World War, Wilkinson was then drafted into military work, where his interest in computational mathematics started. It was during this period that he met his future wife Heather Nora Ware, herself a mathematician with a First Class Honours degree. They married in 1945 and Heather remained an important source of support and encouragement throughout his life.