Spanish mathematician | Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (2023), Doctoral Degree Extraordinary Award (2014), Stampacchia Medal (2021), European Research Council
Alexander Aitken
- Dunedin: April 1, 1895 celebration
- Edinburgh: November 3, 1967 celebration


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Alexander Aitken -
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Alexander Craig Aitken -
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celebration Date of birth
Dunedin: April 1, 1895 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Edinburgh: November 3, 1967 -
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engineering Field of Work
- mathematics
- numerical analysis
- statistics
- linear algebra
- mathematical statistics
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school Education
- Otago Boys' High School
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Otago
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- honorary doctor of the University of New Zealand (1943)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1964)
- Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1948)
- Makdougall Brisbane Prize (1930)
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1947)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1936)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1925)
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
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social_leaderboard Notable Works
- Aitken's delta-squared process
- Aitken interpolation
- New Zealand mathematician (1895-1967) | honorary doctor of the University of New Zealand (1943), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1964), Gunning