Edgar Nelson Gilbert (1923 to 2013) was an American mathematician and coding theorist who spent his career as a researcher at Bell Laboratories. Born in Woodhaven, New York, he studied physics at Queens College, designed radar antennas at the MIT Radiation Laboratory from 1944 to 1946 and finished a Ph.D. in physics at MIT in 1948 under Norman Levinson, then joined Bell Laboratories until his retirement in 1996. His name is attached to the Gilbert-Varshamov bound in coding theory, the Gilbert-Elliott model of bursty transmission errors, the Erdös-Rényi-Gilbert model of random graphs, the Gilbert disk model of random geometric graphs, the Gilbert-Shannon-Reeds model of card shuffling, Gilbert tessellations and the Gilbert-Pollak conjecture on the Steiner ratio.
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was an American mathematician and coding theorist
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Edgar Nelson Gilbert (July 25, 1923, June 15, 2013)
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He did his undergraduate studies in physics at Queens College
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was an American mathematician and coding theorist
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was an American mathematician and coding theorist
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the Erdös-Rényi-Gilbert model for random graphs
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under the supervision of Norman Levinson
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His accomplishments include the Gilbert-Varshamov bound in coding theory
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(due to Edgar Gilbert and independently Rom Varshamov)
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(due to Edgar Gilbert and independently Rom Varshamov)
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