RichardWesleyHamming
Last edit May 7, 2004
Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-1998)
Mathematician,
TuringAward
1968. See
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hamming.html
for his biography. Hamming is best known for his work on error-detecting and error-correcting codes (see
HammingCode
and
HammingDistance
).
Author of the book
ArtOfDoingScienceAndEngineering
.
YouAndYourResearch
is a transcription of a talk Hamming gave at a seminar in the Bell Communications Research Colloquia series. Highly recommended.
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