Alexis Hocquenghem was a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 mathematician

Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

. He is known for his discovery of Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem codes, today better known under the acronym BCH code

BCH code

In coding theory the BCH codes form a class of parameterised error-correcting codes which have been the subject of much academic attention in the last fifty years. BCH codes were invented in 1959 by Hocquenghem, and independently in 1960 by Bose and Ray-Chaudhuri...

s. This class of error correcting codes was published by Hocquenghem in 1959. The code also bears the names of R. C. Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri

D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri

Dwijendra Kumar Ray-Chaudhuri a Bengali Indian born mathematician and a statistician is a professor emeritusat Ohio State University. He and his student R. M...

, who independently discovered these codes and published that result shortly afterwards, in 1960.