Nick Higham: Applied Mathematics, Numerical Linear Algebra and Software

Nicholas John Higham FRS is a British numerical analyst. He is Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. In this blog, it covers the popular topic, such as:

(1) Top 5 Beamer Tips

(2) The Nearest Correlation Matrix

(3) The Top 10 Algorithms in Applied Mathematics

(4) A Black Background for More Restful PDF viewing

(5) Typesetting Mathematics According to the ISO Standard

(6) Fourth Edition (2013) of Golub and Van Loan’s Matrix Computations

(7) The Rise of Mixed Precision Arithmetic

(8) Second Edition (2013) of Matrix Analysis by Horn and Johnson

(9) Half Precision Arithmetic: fp16 Versus bfloat16

(10) Managing BibTeX Files with Emacs

(11) Five Examples of Proofreading

(12) Implicit Expansion: A Powerful New Feature of MATLAB R2016b

(13) Dot Grid Paper for Writing Mathematics

(14) Programming Languages: An Applied Mathematics View

(15) Three BibTeX Tips

(16) Better LaTeX Tables with Booktabs

(17) The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

(18) Numerical Methods That (Usually) Work

(19) What’s New in MATLAB R2017a?

(20) What Is Numerical Stability?