Rodney Forcade
Rodney Warring Forcade is an American mathematician .
Forcade studied mathematics at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and a master's degree in 1963, then was an instructor at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville and from 1967 to 1971 at the University of Washington , where he received his doctorate in 1971 under Branko Grünbaum ( Hamiltonian Paths in Tournaments ). He was then at Illinois State University , 1977 to 1979 Visiting Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University , 1979 to 1981 Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico , from 1981 Associate Professor and from 1988 Professor at Brigham Young University.
Forcade deals with combinatorics , algorithmic number theory , cryptography and multi-dimensional grid tiling. In 1979 he and Helaman Ferguson at Brigham Young University developed an algorithm to discover integer dependencies between real numbers, which later became the PSLQ algorithm .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Forcade Parity of paths and circuits in tournaments , Discrete Math. 6, 115-118 (1973)
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Forcade, Rodney |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forcade, Rodney Warring (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |