Nicholas Higham

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Full Name	Nicholas Higham
Occupation	Mathematician
Date Of Birth	Dec 25, 1961(1961-12-25)
Age	63
Birthplace	Salford Priors
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Nicholas Higham Biography

Nicholas Higham is one of the most popular and richest Mathematician who was born on December 25, 1961 in Salford Priors, England, United Kingdom. Nicholas John Higham FRS, born 25 December 1961 in Salford, is a British mathematical analyst. He is the Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Manchester.

Higham’s books include Functions of Matrices Theory and Computation (2008),Accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms, Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences and MATLAB Guide. He co-authored these books with his brother Desmond Higham. He is the Editor of Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics as well as a contributor to Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics. His books were translated into Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.

He was the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Visiting Assistant Professor in Computer Science from 1988-1989.

Nicholas Higham Net Worth

Nicholas Higham is one of the richest Mathematician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nicholas Higham 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Higham attended Eccles Grammar School and Eccles College. He also received his B.Sc. from the University of Manchester. In Mathematics (1982), M.Sc. M.Sc. in Mathematics (1982), M.Sc. in Numerical Analysis and Computing (83), and PhD In Numerical Analysis (1985). George Hall was the supervisor of his PhD thesis. He was made lecturer in Mathematics at Manchester University in 1985 and has been Richardson Professor Professor of Applied Mathematics there since 1998.

Higham was awarded the Alston S. Householder VI, 1987, for the best PhD thesis on numerical algebra 1984-1987, the 1988 Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis and the 1999 Junior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society. Higham was awarded the prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award from 2003 to 2008. In 2007, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. In 2016, he was elected Member of Academia Europea.

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

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Nicholas Ranked on the list of most popular Mathematician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Nicholas Higham celebrates birthday on December 25 of every year.

Top Facts about Nicholas Higham

1. Nicholas Higham is a British numerical analyst born in 1961.
2. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and SIAM.
3. Higham has published over 100 research papers and books.
4. His work focuses on numerical linear algebra and matrix computations.
5. He developed the widely used software package, MATLAB Matrix Toolbox.
6. Higham received his PhD from Manchester University in 1984.
7. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to mathematics.
8. Higham is currently a professor at the University of Manchester.
9. He serves as editor-in-chief for several mathematical journals.
10. His research has applications in fields such as engineering and finance.