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3 unusual facts about Leslie Fox


Leslie Fox

Fox's laboratory at Oxford was one of the founding organisations of the Numerical Algorithms Group, and Fox was also a dedicated supporter of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).

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Some of this work was published after the end of the Second World War jointly with his supervisor Richard Southwell.

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Fox played a signifficant part in the early days of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), which set out as a collaborative venture between Oxford, Nottingham and Manchester to provide a reliable and well-tested mathematical subroutine library.



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