Beresford Neill Parlett (born 1932) is an English applied mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and scientific computation.
Education and career
Parlett received in 1955 his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the
University of Oxford and then worked in his father's timber business for three years. From 1958 to 1962 he was a graduate student in mathematics at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
, where he received his Ph.D. in 1962. He was a postdoc for two years at Manhattan's
Courant Institute and one year at the
Stevens Institute of Technology. From 1965 until his retirement, he was a faculty member of the mathematics department at the
University of California, Berkeley. There he served for some years as chair of the department of computer science, director of the Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics, and professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science. He was a visiting professor at the
University of Toronto,
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
(Paris VI), and the University of Oxford.
[ (See ]William Kahan
William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who received the Turing Award in 1989 for "''his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis''",
was named an ACM Fellow in 1994, and inducte ...
.)
Awards and honours
* 2006 — (jointly with Inderjit S. Dhillon) SIAM Activity Group Linear Algebra Best Paper Prize
* 2010 —
Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra The Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra is awarded every three years by the International Linear Algebra Society. It recognizes research, contributions, and achievements at the highest level of linear algebra and was first awarded in 1993. It m ...
* 2011 —
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...
(SIAM) Fellow
Selected publications
Articles
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arXiv preprint(See
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Books
* SIAM corrected edition of the original publication by Prentice-Hall in 1980
References
External links
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Scientific computing researchers
Numerical analysts
1932 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Stanford University alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty