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Book Review: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

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If you’ve taken computer science courses or messed around enough with scipy, you might recognize his name in a few different places—Hamming error-correction codes, the Hamming window function, the Hamming distance, the Hamming bound, etc. I had heard of some of these concepts, but didn’t know anything concrete about him before I started reading this book. His brief biography is as follows: Richard Hamming (1915–1998) studied mathematics at the University of Chicago, earned a PhD in three years from Illinois, and then started as a professor at the University of Louisville… in 1944. He was almost immediately recruited for the Manhattan Project, where he worked on large-scale simulations of imploding spherical shells of explosives, and generally acted as a “computational janitor” for various projects. In 1946, he moved to Bell Telephone Laboratories, “arguably the most innovative research institution in the country,” and worked there until 1976. During his time at Bell Labs, he was involv

Book Review: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Corin Wagen About Projects --> Past Work --> Papers Blog (Archive) Book Review: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering May 16, 2023 “They performed his signs among them, and miracles in the land of Ham.” —Psalm 105:27 Who was Richard Hamming, and why should you read his book? If you’ve taken computer science courses or messed around enough with scipy , you might recognize his name in a few different places— Hamming error-correction codes , the Hamming window function , the Hamming distance , the Hamming bound , etc. I had heard of some of

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