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Jessie MacWilliams

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Mathematician, programmer (1917-1990)

United KingdomAcademicsLived 1917 to 1990 · aged 73
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Florence Jessie Collinson MacWilliams was an English mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory, and was one of the first women to publish in the field.

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Florence Jessie Collinson MacWilliams was an English mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory, and was one of the first women to publish in the field. MacWilliams' thesis "Combinatorial Problems of Elementary Group Theory" contains one of the most important combinatorial results in coding theory, which is now known as the MacWilliams Identity.

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Lived 1917 to 1990 · aged 73
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