Elwyn Berlekamp
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-->Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (born September 6, 1940 in Dover, Ohio) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory.
As an undergraduate at MIT, he was a Putnam Fellow in 1961. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering in 1962. Continuing his studies at MIT, he finished his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1964; his advisors were Claude Shannon, Robert G. Gallager, and John Wozencraft. Berlekamp taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 until 1966, when he became a researcher at Bell Labs. In 1971, Berlekamp returned to Berkeley, where he is currently (as of 2006) a Professor of the Graduate School.
Berlekamp is one of the inventors of the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm, which is used to implement Reed-Solomon error correction. In the mid-1980s, he was president of Cyclotomics, Inc., a corporation which developed error-correcting code technology. With John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy, he co-authored Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, leading to his recognition as one of the founders of combinatorial game theory. He has studied various games, including philosopher's football, dots and boxes, and, especially, Go.
Berlekamp and his wife Jennifer have two daughters and a son, and live in Piedmont, California.
Selected publications
- Algebraic Coding Theory, McGraw-Hill, 1968; revised ed., Aegean Park Press, 1984.
- Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, with John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy, Academic Press, 1982, 2 vols.; 2nd ed., A. K. Peters Ltd., 4 vols., 2001–2004.
- Mathematical Go, with David Wolfe, A. K. Peters Ltd., 1994.
See also
External links
- [Elwyn Berlekamp] home page at the University of California, Berkeley.
- [] at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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