Beresford Parlett

Beresford Parlett
Parlett at UC Berkeley in 2018
Born (1932-07-04) July 4, 1932
London, England
DiedFebruary 7, 2026.
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (B.A.)
Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsNumerical analysis
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis I. Bundles of Matrices and the Linear Independence of Their Minors; II. Applications of Laguerre's Method to the Matrix Eigenvalue Problem  (1962)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Forsythe
Doctoral studentsInderjit Dhillon
Anne Greenbaum

Beresford Neill Parlett (1932 - 2026) was an English applied mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and scientific computation.