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Vera Pless
Sign in to saveAmerican mathematician (1931–2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 March 1931
- Died
- 2 March 2020
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Handbook of Coding Theory
- Fundamentals of Error Correcting Codes
- Combinatorial Games
- The cryptoclub
- The Cryptoclub Workbook
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- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Bern
Discography
- Hypernormal2022
- Hypernormal2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vera
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Oak Park
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- Northwestern University
- Employer
- University of Illinois Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- coding theory
- Image
- Huffman pless (cropped).JPG
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- date of birth
- 1931-03-05
- member of
- American Mathematical Society
- Erdős number
- 2
- date of death
- 2020-03-02
- name in native language
- Vera Pless
- influenced by
- Emmy Noether
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Vera Stepen
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- Commons category
- Vera Pless
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