Nicholas Higham

Nick Higham
Born Nicholas John Higham
(1961-12-25) 25 December 1961[1]
Salford
Residence UK
Nationality British
Citizenship British
Alma mater University of Manchester
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University of Manchester
Cornell University[3]
Thesis Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra (1985)
Doctoral advisor George Hall[4]
Website www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham
nickhigham.wordpress.com

Nicholas John Higham FRS (born 25 December 1961 in Salford)[3] is a British numerical analyst. He is Royal Society Research Professor[5] and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.[2][4][6][7][8]

Education and career

Higham was educated at Eccles Grammar School, Eccles College, and the University of Manchester, from which he gained his B.Sc. in Mathematics (1982), M.Sc. in Numerical Analysis and Computing (1983), and PhD in Numerical Analysis (1985).[3][9] His PhD thesis was supervised by George Hall.[4] He was appointed lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Manchester in 1985, where he has been Richardson Professor Professor of Applied Mathematics since 1998.

Research

Higham is best known for his work on the accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms.[10] He has more than 140 refereed publications[2][7] on topics such as rounding error analysis, linear systems, least squares problems, matrix functions and nonlinear matrix equations, matrix nearness problem, 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's books include Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation, (2008),[11]Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, [10] Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences,[12] and MATLAB Guide, co-authored with his brother Desmond Higham.[13] He is Editor of the Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics[14] and a contributor to the Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics [15]. His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean.[16][17][18]

Awards and honours

Higham's honours include the Alston S. Householder Award VI, 1987 (for the best PhD thesis in numerical algebra 1984—1987), the 1988 Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis, a 1999 Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society. Higham held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2003–2008). 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] He was elected a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016[21].

Higham is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.[22]

Professional service

Higham served as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2017-2018, as Vice President at Large 2010-2013, on the Board of Trustees 2006-2009, and on the Council 1996-2001. He was a member of the Applied Mathematics sub-panel for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and the Mathematical Sciences sub-panel of the 2014 Research Exercise Excellence Framework.

References

  1. ↑ "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)
  2. 1 2 3 Nicholas Higham publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. 1 2 3 "HIGHAM, Prof. Nicholas John', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press".
  4. 1 2 3 Nicholas Higham at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Leading scientists awarded Royal Society Research Professorships". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  6. ↑ Higham, N. J. (2002). "Computing the nearest correlation matrix—a problem from finance". IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis. 22 (3): 329–343. doi:10.1093/imanum/22.3.329.
  7. 1 2 Nicholas Higham's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ Nicholas Higham on Twitter
  9. ↑ Higham, Nicholas (1985). Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  10. 1 2 Higham, Nicholas J. (2002). Accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms. Second Edition, Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-521-0.
  11. ↑ Higham, Nicholas J. (2008). Functions of matrices: theory and computation. Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-646-2.
  12. ↑ Higham, Nicholas J. (1998). Handbook of writing for the mathematical sciences. Second Edition, Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-420-6.
  13. ↑ Higham, Nicholas J.; Higham, Desmond J. (2007). MATLAB guide. Third Edition, Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 0-89871-578-4.
  14. ↑ Higham, Nicholas J.; Dennis, Mark R.; Glendinning, Paul; Martin, Paul A.; Santosa, Fadil; Tanner, Jared (2015). The Princeton companion to applied mathematics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691150390.
  15. ↑ Nelson, David. "Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics". ISBN 9780141030234.
  16. ↑ Sūri kagaku ronbun handobukku. Higham, N.J., Okumura, Shōji, 1939-, Hasegawa, Takemitsu, 1944-, 奥村, 彰二, 1939-, 長谷川, 武光, 1944-. 日本評論社. 1994. ISBN 4535782113. OCLC 674217300.
  17. ↑ Higham, Nick (2016). Shu xue lun wen xie zuo. Jia,Zhigang, Chang,Liang, Li,Jianbo, 贾志刚, 常亮, 李建波 (Di 1 ban ed.). Beijing: Ke xue chu ban she. ISBN 9787030513472. OCLC 1050517123.
  18. ↑ 아진, 도서출판. "대학교재 전문 출판사(도서출판 아진)". ajin.to. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
  19. ↑ New Fellows and Foreign Members 2007 www.royalsoc.ac.uk
  20. ↑ "Prize Winners 2008". Retrieved 7 July 2008.
  21. ↑ "Academy of Europe: Higham Nicholas". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  22. ↑ "Nick Higham". The Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
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