Eugene_Prange

Eugene Prange

Eugene Prange

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Eugene August Prange (July 30, 1917 – February 12, 2006)[1][2] was an American coding theorist, a researcher at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL) in Massachusetts who "introduced many of the early fundamental ideas of algebraic coding theory"[3] and was the first to investigate cyclic codes in 1957.[4][5] With Andrew Gleason, he is the namesake of the Gleason–Prange theorem on the symmetries of the extended quadratic residue code.[6]

Prange was born in Illinois to August Prange and Eugenia Livingston.[7] He 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.[2]

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    U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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    Obituary at legacy.com, accessed 2013-05-05.
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    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., vol. 82, New York: Dekker, pp. 23–32, ISBN 978-0-8247-1052-1, MR 0690793
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    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, S2CID 15968912.
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    Blahut, R. E. (September 2006), "The Gleason-Prange theorem", IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 37 (5), Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press: 1269–1273, doi:10.1109/18.133245.
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    U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969
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