Elwyn Berlekamp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elwyn Berlekamp

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1940

Place of Birth: Dover, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 09-Apr-2019

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (September 6, 1940 – April 9, 2019) was an American mathematician known for his work in computer science, coding theory and combinatorial game theory.
He was a professor emeritus of mathematics and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley.Berlekamp was the inventor of an algorithm to factor polynomials, and was one of the inventors of the Berlekamp–Welch algorithm and the Berlekamp–Massey algorithms, which are used to implement Reed–Solomon error correction.
Berlekamp had also been active in money management.
In 1986, he began information-theoretic studies of commodity and financial futures.