15 Facts About Nicholas Higham

Nicholas John Higham FRS was a British numerical analyst.

Nicholas Higham was Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.

Nicholas John Higham was born in Salford on 25 December 1961.

Nicholas Higham was appointed lecturer in mathematics at the University of Manchester in 1985, where he has been Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics since 1998.

Nicholas Higham has more than 140 refereed publications on topics such as rounding error analysis, linear systems, least squares problems, matrix functions and nonlinear matrix equations, matrix nearness problems, condition number estimation, and generalized eigenvalue problems.

Nicholas Higham has contributed software to LAPACK and the NAG library, and has contributed code included in the MATLAB distribution.

Nicholas Higham's books include Functions of Matrices: Theory and Computation, Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, and MATLAB Guide, co-authored with his brother Desmond Nicholas Higham.

Nicholas Higham was Editor of the Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics and a contributor to the Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics.

Nicholas Higham's books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Nicholas Higham died on 20 January 2024 at the age of 62, after an 18 month struggle with a form of blood cancer.

Nicholas Higham held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

Nicholas Higham was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007 and as a ACM Fellow in 2020.

Nicholas Higham was elected a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016.

Nicholas Higham was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Nicholas Higham was a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.