# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-hamming
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:43:59.653Z

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name: "Richard Hamming"
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description: "Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, the sphere-packing or Hamming bound, Hamming graph concepts, and the Hamming distance."
tagline: "American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)"
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birthDate: "1915-02-11"
deathDate: "1998-01-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump