Richard Wesley Hamming

Richard Wesley Hamming

American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound) and the Hamming distance.

Computer scientists

Mathematicians stand on each others’ shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others’ toes.

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