# Alexis Hocquenghem

> Alexis Hocquenghem was a French mathematician. He is known for his discovery of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes, better known under the acronym BCH codes. BCH codes are a class of error correcting codes that were published by Hocquenghem in 1959, and bear the names of mathematicians R. C. Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, who independently discovered these codes and published that result shortly afterwards, in 1960.

*French mathematician (1908-1990)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1908-01-14
- **Died:** 1990-04-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Alexis Hocquenghem was a French mathematician. He is known for his discovery of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes, better known under the acronym BCH codes. BCH codes are a class of error correcting codes that were published by Hocquenghem in 1959, and bear the names of mathematicians R. C. Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, who independently discovered these codes and published that result shortly afterwards, in 1960.

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