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JACK HOWLETT, 1912–1999

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2001

R. F. CHURCHHOUSE  and
J. E. HAILSTONE
R. F. CHURCHHOUSE
Affiliation:
15 Holly Grove, Lisvane, Cardiff CF4 5UJ
J. E. HAILSTONE
Affiliation:
26 Brooksby Road, Tilehurst, Reading RG31 6LY

Abstract

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Dr Jack Howlett, who died on 5 May 1999 at the age of 86, a Founder Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, was a mathematician with a special interest in numerical analysis who early recognised the power of computing methods and who strongly influenced the development of some mechanical computing machines and electronic computers as we know them today. The widespread advance of the use of computer models in all scientific disciplines was made possible thanks to the efforts of a small number of mathematicians who laid the foundations of modern numerical analysis during the late 1930s to early 1960s, a period which covered the greater part of Jack's working life and in which he was a star player.

Type
OBITUARY
Information
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 113 - 115
Copyright
© The London Mathematical Society 2001

Footnotes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. This notice appeared in Mathematics Today, Volume 35, Number 4, and is reprinted by kind permission of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.