16 Facts About Elwyn Berlekamp

Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Elwyn Berlekamp had been active in investing, and ran Axcom, which became the Renaissance Technologies' Medallion Fund.

Elwyn Berlekamp's family moved to Northern Kentucky, where from 1954 Berlekamp attended Fort Thomas Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

Elwyn Berlekamp was elected class president and joined the swim team which practiced naked at the local YMCA pool; Berlekamp was the slowest swimmer but chose swimming because of the low level of competition compared to other sports.

Elwyn Berlekamp decided to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after learning it did not have an American football team.

Elwyn Berlekamp completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering in 1962.

Elwyn Berlekamp did internships at Bell Labs in 1960 and 1962, where his boss was John Larry Kelly Jr.

Elwyn Berlekamp met his wife, Jennifer Wilson, in 1964 after juggling in his apartment and having to apologize for causing a noise disturbance.

Elwyn Berlekamp lived in Piedmont, California and died in April 2019 at the age of 78 from complications of pulmonary fibrosis.

Elwyn Berlekamp was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 until 1966, when he became a mathematics researcher at Bell Labs.

In 1971, Elwyn Berlekamp returned to Berkeley as professor of mathematics and computer science, where he served as the advisor for over twenty doctoral students.

Elwyn Berlekamp was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.

Elwyn Berlekamp was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996, and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

Elwyn Berlekamp studied various games, including dots and boxes, fox and geese, and, especially, Go.

Elwyn Berlekamp was a close friend of Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner and was an important member of the gifted and diverse group of people that Gardner nurtured and acted as a conduit for; people who inspired Gardner and who were in turn inspired by him.

Elwyn Berlekamp was one of the founders of G4G and was on its board of directors for many years.