Mathematician:Robert James McEliece
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Mathematician
American mathematician and engineering professor best known for his work in information theory.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: May 21, 1942
- 1964: B.S. at Caltech
- 1967: Ph.D. at Caltech
- Died: May 8, 2019 in Pasadena, California
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for Robert James McEliece can be found here.
Publications
- 1978: A Public-Key Cryptosystem Based On Algebraic Coding Theory
- 1978: On the Inherent Intractability of Certain Coding Problems (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Vol. IT-24: pp. 384 – 386) (with Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp and Henk C.A. van Tilborg)