Reed and Solomon: polynomial codes over finite fields

What changed

Constructed finite-field polynomial evaluation codes with strong symbol-error correction.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1960 Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics paper. It covers the polynomial-code construction and decoding setting there, not every later Reed-Solomon decoder, implementation or application.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1960 Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics paper. It covers the polynomial-code construction and decoding setting there, not every later Reed-Solomon decoder, implementation or application.

Contributors

• Irving S. Reed · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Gustave Solomon · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• SIAM page for Polynomial Codes Over Certain Finite Fields
• University-hosted full text of Reed-Solomon paper

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