Gustave Solomon

Gustave Solomon (born October 27, 1930 in Brooklyn , New York , † January 31, 1996 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American mathematician and engineer. His best-known work is the co-founding of the Reed-Solomon Code , an error-correcting coding method .

Life

Solomon graduated from Talmudical Academy High School in Manhattan . At the New York Yeshiva University he obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1951 . In 1956 he received his doctorate from MIT on the subject of Non-Commutative Rings of Valuation Vectors . He then taught at universities in Boston and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore .

From 1957 to 1961 he worked at the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT. In 1960, together with Irving S. Reed, he developed the so-called Reed-Solomon Code , a coding method used for error correction and the like. a. in the DVB standards and for coding on CDs . In 1961, Solomon, in collaboration with HF Mattson, presented the Mattson-Solomon polynomial , an analysis method for error-correcting codes. Another co-production by Solomon was the Solomon-McEliece formula .

In 1961 he moved to Los Angeles , where he worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and for TRW Systems. Later he was u. a. Visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles. From 1987 until his retirement he worked for the Hughes Aircraft Company and from 1990 to 1995 he was also a consultant for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1995, he and Irving S. Reed received the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award .

Private

In his spare time, Solomon composed pop and folk songs. He also gave voice and movement lessons and was a supporter of the Feldenkrais method . When he died he left a daughter.

Web links

• Gustave Solomon, Mathematician, Is Dead at 65 Obituary in the New York Times, February 18, 1996 (accessed November 16, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustave Solomon in The Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ↑ Information on the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award on the IEEE website