Golomb or Gollomb is a surname derived from a phonetical approximation of the Polish word "

gołąb Gołąb (meaning "dove") may refer to: * Gołąb (surname) * Gołąb, Chełm County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) * Gołąb, Lubartów County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) *Gołąb, Puławy County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) * ...

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dove Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...

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Abraham Golomb Abraham Golomb (1888, Lithuania - 1982, Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United St ...

(1888–1982) Yiddish-language teacher and writer *

Eliyahu Golomb Eliyahu Golomb ( he, אליהו גולומב, 2 March 1893 – 11 June 1945). Born in Volkovysk, Belarus. After emigrating to Palestine he joined Hashomer, an underground Zionist militia, in 1916. He became one of the leaders of the Jewish defe ...

(1893–1945), leader of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine *

Michael Golomb Michael Golomb (May 3, 1909 in Munich – April 9, 2008) was an American mathematician and educator who was affiliated with Purdue University for over half a century. He was a student of Erhard Schmidt and Adolf Hammerstein, and received his doctor ...

(1909–2008), American mathematician and educator * Rudy Gollomb (1911–1991), American football player * Solomon W. Golomb (1932–2016), American mathematician and engineer **

Golomb ruler In mathematics, a Golomb ruler is a set of marks at integer positions along a ruler such that no two pairs of marks are the same distance apart. The number of marks on the ruler is its ''order'', and the largest distance between two of its mar ...

Golomb coding Golomb coding is a lossless data compression method using a family of data compression codes invented by Solomon W. Golomb in the 1960s. Alphabets following a geometric distribution will have a Golomb code as an optimal prefix code, making Golomb ...

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