Rudolf Ahlswede, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rudolf Ahlswede

mathematician

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1938

Place of Birth: Dielmissen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Dec-2010

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Rudolf F.
Ahlswede (September 15, 1938 – December 18, 2010) was a German mathematician.
Born in Dielmissen, Germany, he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy.
He wrote his Ph.D.
thesis in 1966, at the University of Göttingen, with the topic "Contributions to the Shannon information theory in case of non-stationary channels".
He dedicated himself in his further career to information theory and became one of the leading representatives of this area worldwide.