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Prof. Nick Trefethen FRS

Status
Academic Faculty
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen
Mrs. Helen Taylor, +44 1865 615316
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2504-1709
Research groups
  • Numerical Analysis

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Highlighted books
Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice Trefethen, L (2013)
Highlighted publications
Impossibility of fast stable approximation of analytic functions from equispaced samples
Platte, R Trefethen, L Kuijlaars, A SIAM Review volume 53 issue 2 308-318 (19 Sep 2011)
Robust rational interpolation and least-squares
Trefethen, L Gonnet, P Pachon, R Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis volume 38 146-167 (2011)
Computing a<sup>α</sup>, log(A), and related matrix functions by contour integrals
Hale, N Higham, N Trefethen, L SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis volume 46 issue 5 2505-2523 (10 Nov 2008)
Is Gauss quadrature better than Clenshaw-Curtis?
Trefethen, L SIAM Review volume 50 issue 1 67-87 (01 Mar 2008)
Robust Pade approximation via SVD
Trefethen, L SIAM Review
Prizes, awards, and scholarships

Fellow of the Royal Society

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA)

SIAM President (2011-2012)

IMA Gold Medal (2010)

LMS Naylor Prize (2013)

Recent books
Exploring ODEs Trefethen, L Birkisson, A Driscoll, T (2018) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000469944200025&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e
Recent publications
Sigmoid functions and multiscale resolution of singularities
Huybrechs, D Trefethen, L (03 Mar 2023) http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01967v1
Spectacularly large coefficients in Müntz's theorem
Trefethen, L La Matematica volume 2 issue 1 31-36 (18 Jan 2023)
Rectangular eigenvalue problems
Hashemi, B Nakatsukasa, Y Trefethen, L Advances in Computational Mathematics volume 48 issue 6 (16 Nov 2022)
Spectacularly large expansion coefficients in Müntz's theorem
Trefethen, L (08 Aug 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04176v1
AAA interpolation of equispaced data
Huybrechs, D Trefethen, L (24 Jul 2022)
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