DavidHuffman 2006-09-16 19:05:14 2006-10-17 17:53:27 Biography % this is the default PlanetMath preamble. as your knowledge % of TeX increases, you will probably want to edit this, but % it should be fine as is for beginners. % almost certainly you want these \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} % used for TeXing text within eps files %\usepackage{psfrag} % need this for including graphics (\includegraphics) %\usepackage{graphicx} % for neatly defining theorems and propositions %\usepackage{amsthm} % making logically defined graphics %\usepackage{xypic} % there are many more packages, add them here as you need them % define commands here \emph{David Albert Huffman} (1925 - 1999) American mathematician, best known for Huffman coding used in many lossless data compression \PMlinkescapetext{schemes}. Huffman served in the U. S. Navy during World War II as a radar maintenance officer on a destroyer. After the war, he continued his studies at Ohio \PMlinkescapetext{State} University and earned a PhD from MIT in 1953 and joined the faculty there that year.