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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
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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 Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
, where he received his Ph.D. in 1962. He was a postdoc for two years at Manhattan's
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and one year at the
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. From 1965 until his retirement, he was a faculty member of the mathematics department at the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...
. 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
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,
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(Paris VI), and the University of Oxford. (See
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.)


Awards and honours

* 2006 — (jointly with Inderjit S. Dhillon) SIAM Activity Group Linear Algebra Best Paper Prize * 2010 — Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra * 2011 —
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(SIAM) Fellow


Selected publications


Articles

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arXiv preprint
(See
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and
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.)


Books

* SIAM corrected edition of the original publication by Prentice-Hall in 1980


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parlett, Beresford Scientific computing researchers Numerical analysts 1932 births Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Stanford University alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty