the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States. Trefethen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2005, and his certificate of election reads: In 2010 Trefethen was awarded the Gold Medal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to mathematics and its applications over a period of years". In 2013 Trefethen was awarded the Naylor Prize and lectureship in Applied Mathematics from the London Mathematical Society. He was awarded the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 2017 and the John von Neumann Prize in 2020 by SIAM. Personal life Trefethen has one son and one daughter from his first marriage to Anne Elizabeth Trefethen (née Daman). He is currently married to Kate McLoughlin, a professor of English Literature at Oxford. References External links Fellows of the Royal Society Numerical analysts 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Living people Harvard University alumni Stanford University alumni 1955 births Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Presidents of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty Nick