Let's explain why I chose James Wilkinson as my nickname. It might seem stupid, I know.I had to choose a nickname in order to start my blog. I was thinking about it when I saw my razor blade, that is made by Wilkinson Sword. I thought it would be a good surname to my nickname and I took it. But I needed a first name... I was testing some names and I thought James was fine... so.. I decided that James Wilkinson would be my new nickname. I assumed it was possible there was someone with the same name in the world, but I didn't think it would matter...
Last week, across the big pond asked me about the cause why I'd taken this nickname. He told me James Wilkinson was a veteran of the American Revolution. It seems he was involved in the Conway Cabal, a conspiracy to replace George Washington with Horatio Gates as commander-in-chief. Furthermore, he opposed the new U.S. Constitution, fought for the Kentuky's separation from Virginia, signed an expatriation declaration and, finally, swore allegiance to the King of Spain... what a conflictive man... what a controversial nickname...
I've been researching into it and I've found another James Wilkinson. His complete name was James Hardy Wilkinson. He was an English scientist and he carried out exceptional contributions on the numerical analysis. The J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the Wilkinson's polynomial are named in his honour.To summarize, I chose this name without knowing who James Wilkinson was... so... don't think this nickname has a political connotation or something like that, because probably there are a lot of people with this name in the world.
James Wilkinson
