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Elwyn Berlekamp

1940 - 2019

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Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (September 6, 1940 – April 9, 2019) was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Berlekamp was widely known for his work in computer science, coding theory and combinatorial game theory. Berlekamp invented an algorithm to factor polynomials and the Berlekamp switching game, and was one of the inventors of the Berlekamp–Welch algorithm and the Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–Solomon error correction. He also co-invented the Berlekamp–Rabin algorithm, Berlekamp–Zassenhaus algorithm, and the Berlekamp–Van Lint–Seidel graph. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elwyn Berlekamp is the 897th most popular mathematician (up from 921st in 2019), the 10,110th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,908th in 2019) and the 77th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 897 out of 1,004. Before him are Andrei Okounkov, Yitang Zhang, Henryk Iwaniec, Gilbert Strang, Leopold Löwenheim, and George Mostow. After him are Ruth Moufang, Clifford Truesdell, Claire Voisin, Hjalmar Mellin, Volker Strassen, and Artur Avila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 517. Before him are Jean-Claude Piumi, Stanislav Stepashkin, Brigitte Kronauer, Jeroen Brouwers, Luis Ubiña, and Rinnat Safin. After him are Chris Menges, Bruno Nicolè, Ernesto Cisneros, Juliet Mitchell, Yamini Krishnamurthy, and Tom Brokaw. Among people deceased in 2019, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 479. Before him are Brigitte Kronauer, Pernell Whitaker, Hal Blaine, Alvin Sargent, Thanos Mikroutsikos, and Wallace Smith Broecker. After him are W. S. Merwin, Sheila Dikshit, Clive Swift, Bruno Nicolè, Aleksey Buldakov, and Basil Heatley.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 10,112 out of 20,380. Before him are Anna J. Cooper (1858), Jennifer Syme (1972), Conway Twitty (1933), Vickie Guerrero (1968), Nicholas Colasanto (1924), and George Mostow (1923). After him are Gary L. Francione (1954), Marcia Strassman (1948), George Hearst (1820), Oliver Evans (1755), Corine Mauch (1960), and Clarence Hudson White (1871).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 77. Before him are Herman Chernoff (1923), Robin Hartshorne (1938), Phillip Griffiths (1938), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Gilbert Strang (1934), and George Mostow (1923). After him are Clifford Truesdell (1919), Christine Darden (1942), David Blackwell (1919), Martin David Kruskal (1925), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), and Richard Garfield (1963).

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