| Richard Wesley Hamming | |
| Born | February 11, 1915 Chicago, Illinois |
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| Died | January 7, 1998 (aged 82) Monterey, California |
| Residence |  USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Louisville Manhattan Project Bell Telephone Laboratories Naval Postgraduate School |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago University of Nebraska University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | Waldemar Trjitzinsky |
| Known for | Hamming code Hamming window Hamming numbers Sphere-packing Hamming distance Association for Computing Machinery |
Richard Wesley Hamming (Chicago, February 11, 1915 – Monterey, California, January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public University in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The World War II Manhattan Project developed the first Nuclear weapon (atomic bomb Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the Research organization The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS is a research university at the graduate-school level operated by the United States Navy. Alma mater is Latin for "nourishing mother" It was used in Ancient Rome as a title for the mother Goddess, and in Medieval The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The University of Nebraska is the public University system in the state of Nebraska, USA. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of A doctorate is an Academic degree that indicates the highest level of academic achievement In Telecommunication, a Hamming code is a linear Error-correcting code named after its inventor Richard Hamming. See also Window function (SQL In Signal processing, a window function (also known as an apodization function or The numbers that evenly divide the powers of 60 arise in several areas of mathematics and its applications and have different names coming from these different areas of study In Mathematics, sphere packing problems are problems concerning arrangements of non-overlapping identical Spheres which fill a space Examples The Hamming distance between 1011101 and 1001001 The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window (described in Section 5. In Telecommunication, a Hamming code is a linear Error-correcting code named after its inventor Richard Hamming. In Telecommunication, a Hamming code is a linear Error-correcting code named after its inventor Richard Hamming. See also Window function (SQL In Signal processing, a window function (also known as an apodization function or 8 of his book Digital Filters), Hamming numbers, Sphere-packing (or hamming bound) and the Hamming distance. The numbers that evenly divide the powers of 60 arise in several areas of mathematics and its applications and have different names coming from these different areas of study In Mathematics, sphere packing problems are problems concerning arrangements of non-overlapping identical Spheres which fill a space In Mathematics and Computer science, in the field of Coding theory, the Hamming bound is a limit on the parameters of an arbitrary Block code Examples The Hamming distance between 1011101 and 1001001
He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1937, a master's degree from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and finally a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The University of Nebraska is the public University system in the state of Nebraska, USA. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of He was a professor at the University of Louisville during World War II, and left to work on the Manhattan Project in 1945, programming one of the earliest electronic digital computers to calculate the solution to equations provided by the project's physicists. The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public University in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The World War II Manhattan Project developed the first Nuclear weapon (atomic bomb Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The objective of the program was to discover if the detonation of an atomic bomb would ignite the atmosphere. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Temperature and layers The temperature of the Earth's atmosphere varies with altitude the mathematical relationship between temperature and altitude varies among five The result of the computation was that this would not occur, and so the United States used the bomb, first in a test in New Mexico, and then twice against Japan. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
Later, between 1946-1976 he worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he collaborated with Claude E. Shannon. Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the Research organization Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30 1916 – February 24 2001 an American Electronic engineer and Mathematician, is "the father of Information On July 23, 1976 he moved to the Naval Postgraduate School, where he worked as an Adjunct Professor until 1997, when he became Professor Emeritus. Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS is a research university at the graduate-school level operated by the United States Navy. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies
He was a founder and president of the Association for Computing Machinery. The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society
Awards and professional recognition
- Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery, 1968. The A M Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society
- Fellow of the IEEE, 1968. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization
- IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, 1979. Emanuel (Mannie Ruben Piore ( 19 July 1908 &ndash 9 May 2000) was a scientist and a manager of industrial research
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1980. The United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE is a private non-profit institution which was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the
- Harold Pender Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1981. Harold Pender (1879&ndash1959 was an American academic author and inventor The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 1988. Richard W Hamming Medal is an award given annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE the international organization for 'exceptional contributions
- Fellow of the ACM, 1994. The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society
- Eduard Rhein Award, 1996. Prof Eduard Rudolph Rhein ( August 23, 1900, Königswinter &ndash April 15, 1993, Cannes) was an Inventor,
The Richard W. Hamming Medal is an award given annually by IEEE for 'exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology'. Richard W Hamming Medal is an award given annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE the international organization for 'exceptional contributions
See also
Books
- Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, McGraw-Hill, 1962; second edition 1973. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization Richard W Hamming Medal is an award given annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE the international organization for 'exceptional contributions The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc, ( is a Publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Dover paperback reprint 1985.
- Calculus and the Computer Revolution, Houghton-Mifflin, 1968. Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational Publisher in the United States.
- Introduction To Applied Numerical Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1971.
- Computers and Society, McGraw-Hill, 1972.
- Digital Filters, Prentice Hall, 1977; second edition 1983; third edition 1989. Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher It is an Imprint of Pearson Education Inc ISBN 0-486-65088-X Dover paperback reprint, ca. 2001.
- Coding and Information Theory, Prentice Hall 1980; second edition 1986.
- Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics, Prentice Hall, 1985. Dover paperback reprint, ca. 2005. Unconventional introductory textbook which attempts to both teach calculus and give some idea of what it is good for at the same time. Might be of special interest to someone teaching an introductory calculus course using a conventional textbook, in order to pick up some new pedagogical viewpoints.
- The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers, Addison-Wesley, 1991. Addison-Wesley is a Book publishing imprint of Pearson PLC, best known for computer books
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Gordon and Breach, 1997. Entertaining and instructive. Hamming tries to extract general lessons -- both personal and technical -- to aid one in having a successful technical career by telling stories from his own experiences. (Some of this material relating to the self-management of one's technical career can be found online at the You and Your Research link; see below. ) One of Hamming's lessons is never trust without question someone who claims to be giving you highly accurate data to analyze -- not because they're deliberately lying to you but because the data is never as accurate as people think.
Quotes
- Machines should work. People should think.
- Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane. In Mathematics, the Integral of a non-negative function can be regarded in the simplest case as the Area between the graph of In the branch of Mathematics known as Real analysis, the Riemann integral, created by Bernhard Riemann, was the first rigorous definition of the Integral The European Space Agency 's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory ( INTEGRAL) is detecting some of the most energetic radiation that comes from space
- There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think. (The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics)
- The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
- Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (ˈnjuːtən 4 January 1643 31 March 1727) Biography Early years See also Isaac Newton's early life and achievements " These days we stand on each other's feet! (You and Your Research)
- What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one of them? Why not? (Generalization from You and Your Research)
- The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created. The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton New Jersey, United States is a center for theoretical research (You and Your Research)
- It is better to solve the right problem the wrong way than to solve the wrong problem the right way.
- Beware of finding what you're looking for. [1]
- You cannot have a science without measurement.
External links and references
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F. , “Richard Hamming”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- "Richard Hamming." FOLDOC
- "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics," (1980, The American Mathematical Monthly 87)
- "You and Your Research." (1986)
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Hamming, Richard Wesley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago, Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1998 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Monterey, California |
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