Mathematician:Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp

Mathematician

American mathematician and computer scientist famous for his contributions towards game theory.

Also the innovator of several computer algorithms.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: September 6, 1940 in Dover, Ohio, USA
• Died: April 9, 2019 in Piedmont, California, U.S

Theorems, Definitions and Other Creations

• Welch-Berlekamp Algorithm (with Lloyd Richard Welch)
• Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm (with James Massey)

Publications

• 1964: Block coding with noiseless feedback (PhD Thesis)
• 1968: Algebraic Coding Theory
• 1970: Irregularities in the distributions of finite sequences (J. Number Theory Vol. 2: pp. 152 – 161) (with R.L. Graham)
• 1978: On the Inherent Intractability of Certain Coding Problems (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Vol. IT-24: pp. 384 – 386) (with Robert James McEliece and Henk C.A. van Tilborg)
• 1982: Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (with John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy)
• 1994: Mathematical Go (with David Wolfe)
• 2000: The Dots-and-Boxes Game