Eugene Prange

Eugene A. Prange (circa 1918 – February 12, 2006)[1] was an American coding theorist, a researcher at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts who "introduced many of the early fundamental ideas of algebraic coding theory"[2] and was the first to investigate cyclic codes in 1957.[3][4] With Andrew Gleason, he is the namesake of the Gleason–Prange theorem on the symmetries of the extended quadratic residue code.[5]

Prange graduated from the University of Illinois and spent World War II serving his country in England as an intelligence officer. He then studied at Harvard University before joining AFCRL.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Obituary at legacy.com, accessed 2013-05-05.
  2. ↑ Assmus, E. F., Jr. (1983), "Applications of algebraic coding theory to finite geometric problems", Finite geometries (Pullman, Wash., 1981), Lecture Notes in Pure and Appl. Math. 82, New York: Dekker, pp. 23–32, MR 690793
  3. ↑ Lin, Shu; Costello, Daniel J. (2004). Error Control Coding. Pearson Education. p. 136. ISBN 978-0130426727.
  4. ↑ Costello, Daniel J., Jr.; Forney, G. David, Jr. (2007), "Channel coding: The road to channel capacity", Proceedings of the IEEE 95 (6): 1150–1177, arXiv:cs.IT/0611112, doi:10.1109/jproc.2007.895188.
  5. ↑ Blahut, R. E. (September 2006), "The Gleason-Prange theorem", IEEE Trans. Inf. Theor. (Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press) 37 (5): 1269–1273, doi:10.1109/18.133245.