Richard Hamming

Also known as Richard Wesley Hamming, Richard W. Hamming

American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)

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Born: 1915
Died: 1998
Works: 10

Top works

Calculus and the Computer Revolution
The art of doing science and engineering
The Art of Probability
Some problems in the boundary value theory of linear differential equations
Coding and information theory

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Netherlands
Active from: 1993-11-13

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Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, the sphere-packing or Hamming bound, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.

Born in Chicago, Hamming attended the University of Chicago, the University of Nebraska and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in mathematics under the supervision of Waldemar Trjitzinsky (1901–1973). In April 1945, he joined the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he programmed the IBM calculating machines that computed the solution to equations provided by the project's physicists. He left to join the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1946. Over the next fifteen years, he was involved in nearly all of the laboratories' most prominent achievements. For his work, he received the ACM Turing Award in 1968, being its third recipient.