An Interview with Jim Wilkinson [Audiobook] [CD-ROM]

John C. Nash (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1987

This interview with James Hardy Wilkinson will take listeners back to a period, now 50 years ago, when computers were quirky, cantankerous, handbuilt contraptions; duplicate copies of documents were made with carbon paper; trains were pulled by steam locomotives; and (black and white) television was just being introduced. Recorded in July 1984, just two years before Wilkinson's death, this interview preserves some of the spirit, as well as the facts, of mathematical history. Wilkinson discusses his work, including the building of Turing's Pilot Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), his involvement in the field of computation, and his personal view of early computational developments in numerical analysis. Educated at Cambridge in mathematics, Wilkinson was drawn into computation as a result of work on ballistics calculations during World War II.

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About the Author

John C. Nash is Professor in the School of Management of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches classes in statistics, forecasting, information science, risk management, and quality and productivity improvement. He is the author of several books and has been editor or columnist for such publications as Interface Age, Byte, Chance, PC Magazine, The Lancet, The American Statistician, and SSC Liaison.

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: Society for Industrial Mathematics (January 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898715121
• ISBN-13: 978-0898715125
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,028,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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