The Wisdom of Solomon

The Genius and Legacy of Solomon Golomb

Beatrice A Golomb University of California San Diego, USA Guang Gong University of Waterloo, Canada

Descripton

Alfred W Hales IDA Center for Communicatons Research, la Jolla, USA

Solomon Wolf Golomb lef an unparalleled legacy of accomplishment and recogniton for his work in the applicatons of mathematcs to coding and communicaton theory. His legac also includes a host o individuals whose lives and careers were immeasurabl enriched b their interactons with him. he co editors have a empted to collect man artcles essa s in this volume, o a not too technical sort, b a representatve collecton o such individuals. mong their motvatons is the wish to convince the reader o the incredibl prescient choice o his given name.

he frst secton consists o three artcles which have alread appeared elsewhere, b noted e perts in the felds where the ma orit o Sol s contributons lie mathematcs, computer science and electrical engineering. he second secton consists o three artcles b the co editors in memor o and tribute to Sol. he third secton contains 25 30 artcles b Sol s amil , riends, students, colleagues, etc. he cover a great range o topics and var widel in length, technicalit and other aspects. n the last secton are contributons b Sol himsel , covering various aspects o his career and interests, as well as other related material.

February 2023

£70 | HARDCOVER 978-981-123-436-1

Imprint: World Scientfc Publishing Compan

Extent: 400pp

Type: Popular ook

Main Subject: General

Sub-Subjects: Popular Science Electrical Electronic Engineering General pplied athematcs Histor Science

Keywords: Solomon Golomb Golomb ickman Constant Coding and Communicaton heor Shi egister Se uences

Readership: General

• II:

Introducton to Solomon W Golomb (Elwyn Berlekamp)

Solomon Wolf Golomb 1932–2016 (Andrew J Viterbi )

Solomon Golomb (1932–2016) (Stephen Wolfram)

A Career in Engineering (Beatrice A Golomb and Solomon W Golomb)

Golomb’s Shif Register Sequences — Work with a Great Mind (Guang G Gong)

Memories of Sol (Alfred W Hales)

• III:

The Most Interestng Man in the World (Daniel Arovas)

The Issue of Shif Register Sequences (Richard Blahut)

Solomon Golomb — Some Personal Refectons (G S Bloom)

Golomb’s Norske Forbindelser (Tor Bu)

Sol Golomb, My Friend (Leo Buxbaum)

Ode to Sol ( John Dillon)

Puzzles and Tilings (Tuvi Etzion)

Solomon Wolf Golomb, May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016 ( Jeremiah and Karen Farrell )

Teaching Research and — Teaching (Aviezri Fraenkel )

My Life with Sol (Harold Fredricksen)

Focus and Contrast ( Jonathan Hall and Tingyao Xiong)

Taped Conversaton re Sol and JPL ( Jon Hamkins)

Board Game to Board Room (Robert Hanisee)

The Wisdom of Solomon (Larry Harper)

The Norwegian Connectons of Solomon W Golomb (Tor Helleseth)

Sol Golomb and a Twice-in-a-lifetme Celestal Event ( Jonathan Jedwab)

Solomon W Golomb: A Man of Humility, Integrity and Compassion (Rochelle Kronzek)

Sol Golomb — My Hero and my Idol (Abraham Lempel )

Golomb and Radar Transforms (Nadav Levanon)

Funeral Oraton (C L Max Nikias)

From Professor Solomon Golomb’s Math PhD Advisee to his Stock Market Guru (Stephen Schloss)

Bob Scholtz’s Memories of Sol (Robert Scholtz)

Solomon Golomb: Wise Man, Biblical Scholar, and Father-in-law (Terrence J Sejnowski )

Professor S W Golomb was my Advisor and Mentor (Hong Song)

Sol Golomb in the Fay Zloc Era (Robert Tausworthe)

Early Days with Sol Golomb (Lloyd Welch)

Consummate Gentleman and Scholar ( Alan Willner)

A Tribute to Sol Golomb, the Genius who Transformed USC (Yannis Yortsos)

Meetng Young Sol (Neal Zierler)

• IV:

Eight JPL Lab Oratory Issues

Shif Register Coders and The Golomb Algorithm

Sol’s Trip Report re Marshall Hall Visit

Hadamard Matrix Discovery

Comma Free Codes: Two Papers

Radar Measurements of the Planet Venus (L R Malling and S W Golomb)

“Spelling the States”, etc., from Golomb’s Gambits

“Word Ways” Excerpts

USC Engineer “From JPL to USC and Beyond”

Forty Years afer Sputnik

Golomb’s Reminiscences

Periodic Binary Sequences: Solved and Unsolved Problems

USC Viterbi “Super Sol”

USC Trojan “Busy Signals”: Natonal Medal of Science

Leter to Granville; Erdos Number “Minus One”

The “Golomb-Dickman Constant” — Leter re Lagarias Artcle

LA Jewish Journal Obituary

Shizef Raphaeli Obituary Translaton by Edna Sharoni

Puzzles in Memory of Solomon Golomb ( Joe Buhler et al.)

Final Oral Exam

Conjuring with Computaton

A Manual of Magic and Computng for Beginners

Paul Curzon Queen Mary University, UK

Peter W McOwan Queen Mary University, UK

Key Features

• While there have been books on magic with maths, and magic with science, we believe this is the frst comprehensivel e ploring the links between magic and computer science

• oth authors are eminent researchers and award winning or their public engagement work. heir cs4 n and eaching London Computng Pro ects that the book draws rom have a huge global ollowing including o teachers. his book is an e tended version o one o the most popular aspects o their pro ects using magic tricks to introduce computer science ideas. his is a much more comprehensive version o that idea

• t will appeal to an one interested in magic or computer science novices interested in learning magic, magicians interested in the links to computaton, and also teachers, students and the general public interested in computng. t gives teachers un and novel wa s to introduce computng topics

• Computng is now compulsor in UK schools as well as man other countries so there is a lot o interest in un wa s to learn about it and teach it

• t also builds on the traditon o recreatonal maths and magic and will also be o interest to those interested in la recreatonal mathematcs science and S E public engagement

Descripton

The team behind Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN), bring you Conjuring with Computaton: A Manual of Magic and Computng for Beginners. evelop our skills to be a magician while also learning the basics o computer science b e ploring its links to magic. Each chapter e plains how to do a simple magic trick, step b step, then uses the trick to introduce linked undamental ideas in computer science in a un wa .

reading the book ou will learn to do sel working tricks, be able to hold magic shows, create ou own versions o tricks and with creatvit even invent our own. We cover

• Sel working card tricks

• agical igsaws, bo es and other ob ects

• alse shu es and cuts

• alse choices

• agic with books and pictures

• entalism, clairvo ance and tricks with ghosts

• agic built on technolog

• ind out our riends superpowers ou will also learn how computaton underpins con uring answering uestons like

• What is computaton

• Wh are the skills o a computatonal thinker, like decompositon, abstracton and generalisaton, so important

• Wh is data represented in di erent wa s

• How is eas to use so ware created

• How does maths underpin programming

• What are the basics o c ber securit and privac

• Wh must we all understand how computng technolog a ects societ he book includes profles o computer scientsts, and magicians with links to technolog , through histor . aster con uring and thinking computatonall .

February 2023

Imprint: World Scientfc Publishing Compan

Extent: 280pp

Type: Stud Guide

Main Subject: General

Sub-Subjects: Popular Science So ware Engineering Programming General Science igital Securit nnovaton echnolog Knowledge n ormaton anagement atabases n ormaton Sciences heoretcal Computer Science rtfcial ntelligence achine Learning obotcs nd utomated S stems eural etworks etworking achine Percepton Computer ision Popular ecreatonal athematcs

Keywords: Computaton Con uring Computatonal hinking Computer Science Programming agic Computng n ormatcs Sel Working tricks Human Computer nteracton C ber Securit and Privac Cognitve Ps cholog

Readership: General public hose interested in learning how to do magic tricks and la computng mathematcs science including those visitng science and technolog computng museums. hose learning computer science sub ects (at school or universit ) with an interest in magic

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• lgorithmic hinking

• Evaluaton Logical hinking

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• ecompositon bstracton

• Procedures Procedural bstracton

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• Human Computer nteracton

• Evaluaton Logical hinking

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