Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen was born on 30 August 1955 and is an American mathematician, professor of numerical analysis and head of the Numerical Analysis Group at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
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Nick Trefethen obtained his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1977 and his master's from Stanford University in 1980.
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Nick Trefethen's PhD was on Wave Propagation and Stability for Finite Difference Schemes supervised by Joseph E Oliger at Stanford University.
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Nick Trefethen is perhaps best known for his work on pseudospectra of non-normal matrices and operators.
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Nick Trefethen is the leader of the MATLAB-based Chebfun software project.
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Nick Trefethen was the first winner of the Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis.
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Nick Trefethen is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States.
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Nick Trefethen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005, and his certificate of election reads:.
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Nick Trefethen is distinguished for his many seminal contributions to Numerical Analysis and its applications in Applied Mathematics and in Engineering Science.
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Nick Trefethen has an international reputation for his work on nonnormal matrices and operators.
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Nick Trefethen has made major contributions to finite difference and spectral methods for partial differential equations, numerical linear algebra, and complex analysis.
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In 2010 Nick Trefethen was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years".
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In 2013 Nick Trefethen was awarded the Naylor Prize and lectureship in Applied Mathematics from the London Mathematical Society.
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Nick Trefethen was awarded the George Polya Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 2017 and the John von Neumann Prize in 2020 by SIAM.
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Nick Trefethen has one son and one daughter from his first marriage to Anne Elizabeth Nick Trefethen.
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Nick Trefethen is currently married to Kate McLoughlin, a professor of English Literature at Oxford.