John George Herriot (1916 – 16 March 2003) was a mathematician at

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who worked on numerical analysis. Herriot received his Ph.D. from

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in 1941. He was a professor of mathematics and then of computer science at Stanford University from 1946 until his retirement in 1982. From 1953 to 1961 he was director of the Stanford Computation Center.

Selected publications

*Cesàro summability of ordinary double Dirichlet series. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (1940) Part 1: 920–929. *Nörlund summability of double Fourier series. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (1942) 72–94.
"Blockage Corrections for Three-Dimensional-Flow Closed-Throat Wind Tunnels, With Consideration of the Effect of Compressibility."
(1947). *with

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: *Methods of mathematical analysis and computation. New York, Wiley (1963) xiii+198 p. diagrs., tables. 24 cm. *with Christian Reinsch:

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