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Just so you know, this is the same Hamming that published the classic essay, "You and Your Research" (1986): https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~yymao/misc/Hamming_kai
by bstanfield 11y ago
Just so you know, this is the same Hamming that published the classic essay, "You and Your Research" (1986): https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~yymao/misc/Hamming_kaiser.html https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~yymao/misc/Hamming_kaiser.html
- squeakynick 11y agoHe's also the mathematician who worked on the Manhattan Project and was asked to confirm the calculations that setting off the first test blast would not create a fireball that would burn up all the oxygen on the planet!
- fluxic 11y agoHaha. That's addressed in his essay!!
- wodenokoto 11y agoIs it from him we get hamming and Manhattan distances?
- dalke 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming - "Known for: Hamming code, Hamming window, Hamming numbers, Hamming distance, Association for Computing Machinery" I do not know the origin of the term "Manhattan distance". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry says the concept comes from Minkowski in the 1800s, and a Google Scholar and Google ngram search suggest the term originates from around 1960, and the more common older term was "rectilinear distance". (See https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Manhattan+distance%2Ctaxicab+geometry%2Crectilinear+distance&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CManhattan%20distance%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ctaxicab%20geometry%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Crectilinear%20distance%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Manhattan+dist... .)
- qntty 11y agoManhattan distance is because Manhattan is a grid, and that's how taxis drive or how people walk.
- dalke 11y agoYes. That's also described in the link I gave, including a picture. My question is, who introduced the term to the literature? Was it Hamming, or someone else?
- swalsh 11y agoI believe he's also the same hamming who is named for the Hamming Weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_weight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_weight I made a crazy efficient engine for approving prior authorization data using it :D