Background
Hocquenghem, Alexis was born on January 14, 1908 in Lille, France. Son of Gustave and Alice (Meyer) Hocquenghem.
Hocquenghem, Alexis was born on January 14, 1908 in Lille, France. Son of Gustave and Alice (Meyer) Hocquenghem.
Educated Ecole, Normale Superieure, Paris.
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 Doctorate. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, who independently discovered these codes and published that result shortly afterwards, in 1960.
Member of Societe Mathematique.
Married Madeleine Deschenes, January 21, 1932. Children: Francoise, Jean-Claude, Serge, Guy, Joanny, Anne.