Nicholas Higham

Nick Higham
Nick Higham
Born	Nicholas John Higham; 25 December 1961; Salford, England
Died	20 January 2024 (aged 62)
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Awards	Alston Householder Award VI (1987); Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (1988); Junior Whitehead Prize (1999); Fellow of the Royal Society (2007); Fröhlich Prize (2008); SIAM Fellow (2009); Naylor Prize and Lectureship (2019); IMA Gold Medal (2020); ACM Fellow (2020); George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2021); Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra (2022); Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2022);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics; Numerical analysis; Numerical linear algebra; Mathematical software;
Institutions	University of Manchester; Cornell University
Thesis	Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra (1985)
Doctoral advisor	George Hall
Doctoral students	Kim Hyun-Min
Website	nhigham.com

Nicholas John Higham FRS (25 December 1961 – 20 January 2024) was a British numerical analyst. He was Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.

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