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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edgar NelsonGilbert was an American mathematician and coding theorist, a longtimeresearcher at Bell Laboratories whose accomplishments include theGilbert-Varshamov bound in coding theory, the Gilbert-Elliott model ofbursty errors in signal transmission, and the Erd¿s-Rényi model forrandom graphs. Gilbert was born in 1923 in Woodhaven, New York. He didhis undergraduate studies in physics at Queens College, City Universityof New York, graduating in 1943. He taught mathematics briefly at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but then moved to theRadiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wherehe designed radar antennas from 1944 to 1946. He finished a Ph.D. inphysics at MIT in 1948, with a dissertation entitled Asymptotic Solutionof Relaxation Oscillation Problems under the supervision of NormanLevinson, and took a job at Bell Laboratories where he remained for therest of his career. He retired in 1996.…