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Leslie Fox was born in Yorkshire in 1918, and spent most of his professional life in Oxford, as Director of the University Computing Laboratory and as the first Professor of Numerical Analysis in the University.
His mathematical education began at the Wheelwright Grammar School in Dewsbury, which produced a number of distinguished mathematicians and scientists at about the same time as Fox under the influence of an inspiring Headmaster and teacher (Leslie Sadler). Fox went to Oxford in 1936 as a scholar of Christ Church, and he gained a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics. He continued his studies for a DPhil under the direction of Professor Sir Richard Southwell, with a project in the area of computational and engineering mathematics which initiated some of the main interests of his career. His first appointment was at the Admiralty Computing Service in 1943; here he learnt the skills of table-making which he later used in a number of publications.
In 1945 Fox and several colleagues moved to the new Mathematics Division of the National Physical Laboratory. It was recognised at that time that the emerging technology of automatic computation would lead to requirements for effective mathematical methods which exploited the new machinery. The Mathematics Division embarked on an extensive programme of research in computational methods, in parallel with the construction of the Pilot ACE machine, which carried out its first computations in 1950. The Division remained a major source of ideas and methods in numerical mathematics for many years, with Fox taking a leading role until he was appointed to set up the Computing Laboratory in Oxford in 1957.
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摘要莱斯利·福克斯出生在约克郡于1918年，并在牛津大学度过了他的大部分职业生涯中，作为大学计算机实验室主任和数值分析在大学的第一个教授。他的数学教育开始在车匠文法学校在迪斯伯里，它生产约一个鼓舞人心的校长和教师（张国荣萨德勒）的影响下，同时福克斯的一些杰出的数学家和科学家。福克斯赴牛津大学于1936年作为一个学者基督教堂，而他在数学获得了一等荣誉学位。他继续他的研究为一个哲学博士理查德爵士南威尔斯马教授的指导下，在其中一些开始他的职业生涯的主要利益计算和工程数学领域的项目。他的第一次约会是在金钟计算服务在1943年;在这里，他学会了表制定的，他在一些出版物以后使用的技能。1945年福克斯和几个同事搬到了国家物理实验室的新的数学课。它是在这个时候，自动计算的新兴技术将导致对这些利用新机制有效的数学方法要求的认可。数学课开始了广泛的研究计划中的计算方法，平行于试验ACE机的建设，它进行了第一次计算在1950年本司仍然是思想和方法的一个主要来源多年数值数学，与福克斯采取了主导作用，直到他被任命为建立计算机实验室在牛津1957年。
D. F. Mayers and J. E. Walsh. Leslie Fox[J]. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1999,31(2): 241-247