Alexis Hocquenghem, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Alexis Hocquenghem

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1908

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1990

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Alexis Hocquenghem (14 January 1908 – 17 April 1990) was a French mathematician.
He is known for his discovery of Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem codes, today better known under the acronym BCH codes.
This class of error correcting codes was published by Hocquenghem in 1959.
The code also bears the names of R.
C.
Bose and D.
K.
Ray-Chaudhuri, who independently discovered these codes and published that result shortly afterwards, in 1960.