MATHEMATICIAN

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elwyn Berlekamp has received more than 234,270 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Elwyn Berlekamp is the 921st most popular mathematician (down from 814th in 2019), the 10,904th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,241st in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 921 out of 1,004. Before him are Wilhelm Wirtinger, Ken Ribet, Satish Dhawan, Jacob Bronowski, Martin David Kruskal, and J. H. C. Whitehead. After him are Ruth Moufang, Ivar Otto Bendixson, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, George Mostow, George Peacock, and Branko Grünbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 546. Before him are Ugo Colombo, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Brian Bennett, Bjarne Andersson, Johnny Giles, and Stanislav Stepashkin. After him are Graham McRae, Yelena Petushkova, Rinnat Safin, Ernesto Cisneros, Alexei Panshin, and Steve O'Rourke. Among people deceased in 2019, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 501. Before him are Basil Heatley, Ivan Kizimov, Paul Sauvage, Hamza bin Laden, W. Morgan Sheppard, and Andrea Pollack. After him are Sergey Dorenko, Djimrangar Dadnadji, Zaza Urushadze, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Arun Jaitley, and Harald Nickel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 10,904 out of 20,380. Before him are Tim Reid (1944), John Bunny (1863), Isabel Sanford (1917), Al Joyner (1960), Ellen Ochoa (1958), and James Hartle (1939). After him are Martha Plimpton (1970), Niecy Nash (1970), Edwin Lord Weeks (1849), David Burtka (1975), Susanne Blakeslee (1956), and Nell Arthur (1837).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 81. Before him are Phillip Griffiths (1938), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), Herman Chernoff (1923), Ken Ribet (1948), and Martin David Kruskal (1925). After him are George Mostow (1923), Ormond Stone (1847), David Singmaster (1938), Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917), Carl Pomerance (1944), and Andrew M. Gleason (1921).

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