Gustave Solomon

Gustave Solomon (born 27 October 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 received his degree at the Talmudical Academy High School in Manhattan. On the New York Yeshiva University in 1951, he obtained a BA in mathematics. In 1956 he obtained his doctorate at M.I.T. with the issue of Non- Commutative Valuation Rings of Vector. Subsequently, he taught at universities in Boston and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

From 1957 to 1961 he worked at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory There he developed in 1960 in collaboration with Irving S. Reed called Reed -Solomon code, a coding method that is used for error correction, inter alia, in the DVB standards for encoding and on CDs. In 1961 Solomon, in collaboration with the HF Mattson Mattson -Solomon polynomial ago, an analysis method for error-correcting codes. Another co-production was the Solomons Solomon McEliece formula.

In 1961 he moved to Los Angeles and worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and TRW Systems. Later he worked among others as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles. From 1987 he worked until his retirement for the Hughes Aircraft Company from 1990 to 1995 and was also a consultant for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1995 he received together with Irving S. Reed 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. At his death he left a daughter.