What is Elwyn Berlekamp?
[[File:Elwyn R Berlekamp 2005.jpg|thumb|Berlekamp in June 2005]] '''Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp''' (September 6, 1940 – April 9, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He was known for his work in [[computer science]], [[coding theory]] and [[combinatorial game theory]]. He was a [[professor]] [[emeritus]] of [[mathematics]] and [[Computer Science and Engineering|EECS]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He was the [[inventor]] of an [[algorithm]] to factor [[polynomial]]s. He was one of the inventors of the [[Berlekamp–Welch algorithm|Berlekamp–Welch]] and the [[Berlekamp–Massey algorithm]]s. These are used for [[Reed–Solomon error correction]]. Berlekamp was born in [[Dover, Ohio|Dover]], [[Ohio]]. His family later moved to northern [[Kentucky]]. He was married to Jennifer. The couple had three children. Berlekamp died on April 9, 2019 in [[Piedmont, California]] of [[pulmonary fibrosis]]-related problems, at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ludicum.org/elwyn-berlekamp|title=Elwyn Berlekamp|lang=pt|date=12 April 2019|access-date=14 April 2019|work=Ludicum|archive-date=27 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427214125/http://ludicum.org/elwyn-berlekamp|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{MathGenealogy|id=16958}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Berlekamp, Elwyn}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty]] [[Category:American computer scientists]] [[Category:American mathematicians]] [[Category:Scientists from Kentucky]] [[Category:Scientists from Ohio]] {{US-bio-stub}}