Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician who lived from 1915 to 1998 and whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, the sphere packing or Hamming bound, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance.
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Death PlaceMonterey, California, United States 2 Notable Work BirthplaceChicago, Illinois, United States 2 Field
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February 11, 1915
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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Infobox, Died (date)
January 7, 1998
Infobox, Died (place)
Monterey, California, U.S.
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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.
Member Of: Bell Labs, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: University of Louisville; Manhattan Project (Los Alamos Laboratory, (1945-1946)); Bell Labs (1946-1976); Naval Postgraduate School (1976-1998)
Works In: Mathematics, Lead sentence
Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915, January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications.
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