Mathematician:Solomon Wolf Golomb

Mathematician
American mathematician, engineer and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known for his works on mathematical games.

Invented Cheskers in $1948$ and coined the name.

Fully described polyominoes and pentominoes in $1953$

Specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory and communications.

His game of Pentomino inspired Tetris.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 30 May 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
 * Died: 1 May 2016 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Creations

 * Cheskers
 * Golomb Sequence
 * Golomb Coding
 * Golomb Ruler
 * Lempel-Golomb Generation Method (with )

Publications