Eugene Prange

Eugene August Prange (July 30, 1917 – February 12, 2006)U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/goedwardsville/obituary.aspx?n=eugene-a-prange&pid=17953776 Obituary] at legacy.com, accessed 2013-05-05. was an American coding theorist, a researcher at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL) in Massachusetts who "introduced many of the early fundamental ideas of algebraic coding theory"{{citation

| last = Assmus | first = E. F. Jr.

| contribution = Applications of algebraic coding theory to finite geometric problems

| location = New York

| mr = 690793

| pages = 23–32

| publisher = Dekker

| series = Lecture Notes in Pure and Appl. Math.

| title = Finite geometries (Pullman, Wash., 1981)

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AyE-u8rid4IC&pg=PA23

| volume = 82

| year = 1983| isbn = 978-0-8247-1052-1

}} and was the first to investigate cyclic codes in 1957.{{cite book|last1=Lin|first1=Shu|first2=Daniel J.|last2=Costello|title=Error Control Coding|isbn=978-0-13-042672-7|year=2004|publisher=Pearson Education|page=136}}{{citation

| last1 = Costello | first1 = Daniel J. Jr.

| last2 = Forney | first2 = G. David Jr.

| arxiv = cs.IT/0611112

| issue = 6

| journal = Proceedings of the IEEE

| pages = 1150–1177

| title = Channel coding: The road to channel capacity

| volume = 95

| year = 2007

| doi=10.1109/jproc.2007.895188| s2cid = 15968912

}}. With Andrew Gleason, he is the namesake of the Gleason–Prange theorem on the symmetries of the extended quadratic residue code.{{citation

| last = Blahut | first = R. E. | author-link = R. E. Blahut

| date = September 2006

| doi = 10.1109/18.133245

| issue = 5

| journal = IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory

| location = Piscataway, NJ, USA

| pages = 1269–1273

| publisher = IEEE Press

| title = The Gleason-Prange theorem

| volume = 37}}.

Prange was born in Illinois to August Prange and Eugenia Livingston.U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1781-1969 He graduated from the University of Illinois and spent World War II serving his country in England as an intelligence officer. He then studied at Harvard University before joining AFCRL.