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Books by Richard Hamming

Richard W. Hamming (1915–1998) was an American mathematician who spent the majority of his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he made foundational contributions to computer science and telecommunications. His work on error-correcting codes (Hamming codes) and the Hamming distance remain standard tools in information theory and digital communications. He received the Turing Award in 1968. After leaving Bell Labs, he taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where this book originated as a course called "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering."