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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 215,155 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Elwyn Berlekamp is the 817th most popular mathematician (down from 770th in 2019), the 9,261st most popular biography from United States (down from 9,108th in 2019) and the 65th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 817 out of 823Before him are Barry Mazur, Mark Kac, Alexander Aitken, Heinz Prüfer, Kenneth Appel, and Yury Osipov. After him are Volker Strassen, Curtis T. McMullen, Richard K. Guy, Yuri Linnik, Norman Johnson, and Hans Lewy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 472Before him are Jürgen Kurbjuhn, Roberto Matosas, Yvonne Blake, Viktor Kuzkin, Jutta Heine, and Alexander Almetov. After him are John Castle, Fontella Bass, Juliet Mitchell, Chris Menges, David Gates, and Manfred Manglitz. Among people deceased in 2019, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 422Before him are Juan Rodríguez, Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Norbert Eder, Aleksandar Kostov, Siegmar Wätzlich, and Julie Gibson. After him are Gennadi Manakov, Neil Innes, Norma Croker, Roky Erickson, Pernell Whitaker, and Eddie Money.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 9,261 out of 18,182Before him are John N. Mitchell (1913), Payman Maadi (1970), Sunrise Adams (1982), Anita Louise (1915), Holland Roden (1986), and Keith Andrews (1920). After him are William Varley (1880), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Kyle Eastwood (1968), Kim Delaney (1961), Craig Robinson (1971), and Richie Ramone (1957).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Elwyn Berlekamp ranks 65Before him are Garrett Birkhoff (1911), Marston Morse (1892), Ormond Stone (1847), Cleve Moler (1939), Barry Mazur (1937), and Kenneth Appel (1932). After him are Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Norman Johnson (1930), Martin David Kruskal (1925), George Mostow (1923), Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879), and Martin Davis (1928).