Beresford Neill Parlett (born 1932) is an English applied mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and scientific computation.[2]

Beresford Parlett
Parlett at UC Berkeley in 2018
Born (1932-07-04) July 4, 1932 (age 92)
London, England
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (B.A.)
Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsNumerical analysis
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis I. Bundles of Matrices and the Linear Independence of Their Minors; II. Applications of Laguerre's Method to the Matrix Eigenvalue Problem[1]  (1962)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Forsythe
Doctoral studentsInderjit Dhillon
Anne Greenbaum

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Parlett received in 1955 his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford 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, where he received his Ph.D. in 1962. He was a postdoc for two years at Manhattan's Courant Institute and one year at the Stevens Institute of Technology. From 1965 until his retirement, he was a faculty member of the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley. 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 University of Toronto, Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), and the University of Oxford.[3]

Parlett is the author of many influential papers on the numerical solution of eigenvalue problems, the QR algorithm, the Lanczos algorithm, symmetric indefinite systems, and sparse matrix computations.[3]

Awards and honours

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Selected publications

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Articles

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Books

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References

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  1. ^ Beresford Neill Parlett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Beresford N. Parlett". Mathematics Department, U. C. Berkeley.
  3. ^ a b Bunch, James R. (1995). "Editorial (introducing special issue dedicated to Beresford Parlett and William Kahan on their 60th birthdays)". Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications. 2 (2): 85. doi:10.1002/nla.1680020202. (See William Kahan.)
  4. ^ "Prize History". SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Best Paper Prize, SIAM.
  5. ^ a b "Beresford N. Parlett". Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, U. C. Berkeley.
  6. ^ Hirsch, Morris W.; Palais, Richard S. (1992). "Editors' remarks (on two complexity theory surveys in the Bulletin)". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 26: 1–2. arXiv:math/9201262. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00238-0.
  7. ^ Stewart, G. W. (1981). "Book Review: The symmetric eigenvalue problem". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 4 (3): 368–374. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1981-14918-1.
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