Mathematician:Robert James McEliece

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

• McEliece Cryptosystem
• Solomon-McEliece Weight Formula (with Gustave Solomon)

• McEliece's Theorem
• McEliece's Theorem (Integer Functions)

Results named for Robert James McEliece can be found here.

Definitions of concepts 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)