Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
James H. Wilkinson

Born: September 27, 1919
Died: October 5, 1986 (aged 67)
Bio: James Hardy Wilkinson was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.
Known for:
- The algebraic eigenvalue problem (1965)
- Rounding Errors in Algebraic Processes (1964)
- Linear algebra (1967)
- Isoenzymes (1965)