Quote of the day
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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)