Vera Pless

Vera Pless (née Stepen, March 5, 1931 – March 2, 2020) was an American mathematician. She worked in combinatorics and coding theory."Vera Pless", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College She was professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 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.

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