Nicholas Higham
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| Born | Nicholas John Higham 25 December 1961[2] |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
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| Institutions | University of Manchester Cornell University[2] |
| Thesis | Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Hall[3] |
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| Website | twitter nickhigham www |
Nicholas John Higham FRS (born Salford 25 December 1961)[2] is a British numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.[1][3][9][10][11][12]
Education
Higham was educated at the University of Manchester, gaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1982, Master of Science degree in 1983 and PhD 1985.[2][13] His PhD thesis was supervised by George Hall.[3]
Research
Higham is Director of Research within the School of Mathematics, Director of the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), and Head of the Numerical Analysis Group. He held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2003–2008) and as of 2006[update] is on the Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited Researcher list.[14]
Higham is best known for his work on the accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms.[15] He has more than 85 refereed publications[1][9][11] on topics such as rounding error analysis, linear systems, least squares problems, matrix functions and nonlinear matrix equations, condition number estimation, and generalized eigenvalue problems. He has contributed software to LAPACK and the NAG library, and has contributed code included in the MATLAB distribution.
Higham is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Forum of Mathematics, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Numerical Algorithms, and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.
Higham's books include Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation (2008),[16] Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms,[15] Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences,[17] and MATLAB Guide, co-authored with his brother Desmond Higham.[18]
Awards and honours
His honours include the Alston S. Householder Award VI, 1987 (for the best Ph.D. thesis in numerical algebra 1984—1987), the 1988 Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, a 1999 Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.[19] In 2008 he was awarded the Fröhlich Prize in recognition of 'his leading contributions to numerical linear algebra and numerical stability analysis'.[20]
References
- ^ a b c Nicholas Higham publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c d "HIGHAM, Prof. Nicholas John". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required) Cite error: The named reference "whoswho" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c d Nicholas Higham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Borsdorf, Rüdiger (2012). Structured matrix nearness problems : theory and algorithms (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
- ^ Kannan, Ramaseshan (2014). Numerical Linear Algebra Problems in Structural Analysis (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
- ^ Lin, Lijing (2011). Roots of stochastic matrices and fractional matrix powers (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
- ^ Papadimitriou, Pythagoras (1993). Parallel Solution of SVD-Related Problems, With Applications (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
- ^ Relton, Samuel (2014). Algorithms for Matrix Functions and their Frechet Derivatives and Condition Numbers (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
- ^ a b Nicholas Higham publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
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|doi=10.1093/imanum/22.3.329instead. - ^ a b Nicholas Higham's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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- ^ Higham, Nicholas (1985). Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
- ^ http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=5946[dead link]
- ^ a b Higham, Nicholas J. (2002). Accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-521-0.
- ^ Higham, Nicholas J. (2008). Functions of matrices: theory and computation. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-646-2.
- ^ Higham, Nicholas J. (1998). Handbook of writing for the mathematical sciences. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-420-6.
- ^ Higham, Nicholas J.; Higham, Desmond J. (2005). MATLAB guide. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-578-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ New Fellows and Foreign Members 2007 www.royalsoc.ac.uk[dead link]
- ^ "Prize Winners 2008". Retrieved 2008-07-07.[dead link]
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- Academics of the University of Manchester
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- 21st-century British mathematicians
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- ISI highly cited researchers
- Numerical analysts
- People from Salford, Greater Manchester
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
- Whitehead Prize winners