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]
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]