Jessie MacWilliams
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Mathematician, programmer
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Group Theory
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Number Theory
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Algebra
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Why Is Jessie MacWilliams Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Florence Jessie Collinson MacWilliams was an English mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory, and was one of the first women to publish in the field. MacWilliams' thesis "Combinatorial Problems of Elementary Group Theory" contains one of the most important combinatorial results in coding theory, and is now known as the MacWilliams Identity.
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