MATHEMATICIAN

Richard Hamming

1915 - 1998

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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, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound), Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance. Born in Chicago, Hamming attended University of Chicago, 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Hamming has received more than 596,918 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Richard Hamming is the 398th most popular mathematician (down from 340th in 2019), the 3,173rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,888th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Hamming ranks 398 out of 1,004. Before him are Stephen Cole Kleene, Raymond Smullyan, Qin Jiushao, Campanus of Novara, Lars Hörmander, and Pierre Alphonse Laurent. After him are Benedetto Castelli, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Enrico Betti, Richard S. Hamilton, Hans Freudenthal, and Bhāskara I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Richard Hamming ranks 101. Before him are Prince George William of Hanover, André Frossard, Caterina Boratto, J. C. R. Licklider, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, and John Vorster. After him are Tim, Artur London, Marais Viljoen, Evgeny Lifshitz, Alberto Burri, and Paul Castellano. Among people deceased in 1998, Richard Hamming ranks 104. Before him are John Derek, Shinichi Suzuki, Otto Baum, Nino Ferrer, Juan José Nogués, and Yuri Artyukhin. After him are Sani Abacha, Barry Goldwater, Benjamin Spock, Mary Cartwright, Joan Hickson, and Birger Ruud.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Hamming ranks 3,173 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Bishop (1945), George William Hill (1838), John Milius (1944), Anthony Edwards (1962), Alice B. Toklas (1877), and Artie Shaw (1910). After him are Lesley Gore (1946), Marlena Shaw (1939), Joseph Strauss (1870), Ron Kovic (1946), Tallulah Bankhead (1902), and Sally Ride (1951).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Richard Hamming ranks 21. Before him are John G. Thompson (1932), Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), Sam Loyd (1841), Stephen Cole Kleene (1909), and Raymond Smullyan (1919). After him are Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Jim Simons (1938), Whitfield Diffie (1944), William Thurston (1946), Richard E. Bellman (1920), and Isadore Singer (1924).

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