Valery Denisovich Goppa (; born 1939) is a

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and

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n mathematician. He discovered a relation between

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and codes, utilizing the Riemann-Roch theorem. Today these codes are called algebraic geometry codes. In 1981 he presented his discovery at the algebra seminar of the

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. He also constructed other classes of codes in his career, and in 1972 he won the best paper award of the

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for his paper "A new class of linear correcting codes". It is this class of codes that bear the name of “ Goppa code”.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goppa, Valery Russian mathematicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Russian scientists