Vera Pless

Vera Pless (née Stepen, March 5, 1931 – March 2, 2020) was an American mathematician. She worked in combinatorics and coding theory.[1][2] She was professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[3] She was born in West Side, Chicago, Illinois. She began working in physics at the University of Chicago, but soon won a fellowship to study at Northwestern University. Later she worked at military researching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked as a research associate for Project MAC.

Pless died at her home in Oak Park, Illinois on March 2, 2020 at the age of 88.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Vera Pless", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
  2. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Vera Pless", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
  3. ↑ "Obituary: Dr. Vera Pless". University of Illinois at Chicago. March 9, 2020. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Vera Pless". Chicago Tribune. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2020.