Education
Born in Strood, England, he attended the Sir Joseph Williamson"s Mathematical School in Rochester. He studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at, Cambridge, where he graduated as Senior Wrangler.
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Born in Strood, England, he attended the Sir Joseph Williamson"s Mathematical School in Rochester. He studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at, Cambridge, where he graduated as Senior Wrangler.
Taking up war work in 1940, he began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing on the American Council on Exercise computer project Later, Wilkinson"s interests took him into the numerical analysis field, where he discovered many significant algorithms.
Royal Society.