Mathematician:Marcel Jules Edouard Golay

Mathematician

Swiss-born mathematician, physicist, and information theorist, who worked on real-world military and industrial problems.

Nationality

Swiss

History

• Born: 3 May 1902 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• Died: 27 April 1989 in Connecticut, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Golay Binary Code
• Golay Ternary Code

• Golay-Shapiro Polynomial (with Harold Seymour Shapiro)

• Golay-Rudin-Shapiro Sequence (with Walter Rudin and Harold Seymour Shapiro)

Definitions of concepts named for Marcel Jules Edouard Golay can be found here.

Publications

• 1949: Notes on Digital Coding (Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers Vol. 37: p. 657)