Nicholas John Higham FRS (born Salford 25 December 1961) is a numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.
He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BA in 1982, MSc in and 1983 and PhD 1985. His PhD thesis was entitled Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra and his supervisor was George Hall. Higham is Director of Research within the Sc...
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Nicholas John Higham FRS (born Salford 25 December 1961) is a numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.
He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BA in 1982, MSc in and 1983 and PhD 1985. His PhD thesis was entitled Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra and his supervisor was George Hall. Higham is Director of Research within the School of Mathematics, Director of the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), and Head of the Numerical Analysis Group. He held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2003-2008) and as of 2006 is on the Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited Researcher list.
Higham is best known for his work on the accuracy and stability of numerical algorithms. He has more than 85 refereed publications on topics such as rounding error analysis, linear systems, least squares problems, matrix functions and nonlinear...
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