Vera Pless

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Vera Pless is an American mathematician specializing in combinatorics and coding theory. She is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her Erdős number is 2, having co-authored several articles with John H. Conway.

[edit] Publications

• Pless, Vera (1982). Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes, Wiley-Interscience Series in Discrete Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-08684-3. 
• Pless, Vera; RA Brualdi, WC Huffman (November 1998). Handbook of Coding Theory, North-Holland Mathematical Library. North-Holland. ISBN 978-0444814722. 
• Pless, Vera; WC Huffman (August 2003). Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521782807. 
• Pless, Vera; Janet Beissinger (May 2006). Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes. A.K. Peters, Ltd.. ISBN 1-56881-223-X. 

[edit] External links

• Personal homepage