Mike Keith (mathematician)
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Mike Keith is an American mathematician, software engineer, and author of works of constrained writing
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Keith was employed at Sarnoff Corporation
from 1980 until 1990 and Intel Corporation
from 1990 to 1998, both tenures involving work in multimedia software. He was part of the original team at Sarnoff that developed Digital Video Interactive
, the first PC digital video system, and at Intel he was a member of the group that developed Indeo
, another video compression standard. As a result of this work Keith is credited as inventor or co-inventor on 60 US patents http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Keith%3B+Michael&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=Intel&FIELD2=ASNM&d=PTXT.
Keith was the first to describe primeval number
s and Keith numbers. His book From Polychords to Pólya: Adventures in Musical Combinatorics is about the application of the Pólya enumeration theorem
to the counting and classification of musical constructs such as chords, scales, and rhythms.
Keith has written several long works of constrained writing
, such as Cadaeic Cadenza
, a story in which the number of letters in successive words spells out the first 3835 digits of the number pi
, and the book The Anagrammed Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, co-written with Richard Brodie, in which the roughly 95,000 letters of the original text are rearranged into a modern paraphrase.
Constrained writing
Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.Constraints are very common in poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form....
.
Keith was employed at Sarnoff Corporation
Sarnoff Corporation
Sarnoff Corporation, with headquarters in West Windsor Township, New Jersey, was a research and development company specializing in vision, video and semiconductor technology....
from 1980 until 1990 and Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...
from 1990 to 1998, both tenures involving work in multimedia software. He was part of the original team at Sarnoff that developed Digital Video Interactive
Digital Video Interactive
Digital Video Interactive was the first multimedia desktop video standard for IBM-compatible personal computers, developed around 1984 by Section 17 of The David Sarnoff Research Center Labs then a division of RCA. When General Electric purchased RCA in 1986, GE considered the DSRC redundant...
, the first PC digital video system, and at Intel he was a member of the group that developed Indeo
Indeo
Indeo Video is a video codec developed by Intel in 1992. It was sold to Ligos Corporation in 2000. While its original version was related to Intel's DVI video stream format, a hardware-only codec for the compression of television-quality video onto compact disks, Indeo was distinguished by being...
, another video compression standard. As a result of this work Keith is credited as inventor or co-inventor on 60 US patents http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Keith%3B+Michael&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=Intel&FIELD2=ASNM&d=PTXT.
Keith was the first to describe primeval number
Primeval number
In mathematics, a primeval number is a natural number n for which the number of prime numbers which can be obtained by permuting some or all of its digits is larger than the number of primes obtainable in the same way for any smaller natural number...
s and Keith numbers. His book From Polychords to Pólya: Adventures in Musical Combinatorics is about the application of the Pólya enumeration theorem
Pólya enumeration theorem
The Pólya enumeration theorem , also known as the Redfield–Pólya Theorem, is a theorem in combinatorics that both follows and ultimately generalizes Burnside's lemma on the number of orbits of a group action on a set. The theorem was first published by John Howard Redfield in 1927...
to the counting and classification of musical constructs such as chords, scales, and rhythms.
Keith has written several long works of constrained writing
Constrained writing
Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.Constraints are very common in poetry, which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form....
, such as Cadaeic Cadenza
Cadaeic Cadenza
Cadaeic Cadenza is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is an example of constrained writing, a book with restrictions on how it can be written. It is also one of the most prodigious examples of piphilology, being written in "pilish"....
, a story in which the number of letters in successive words spells out the first 3835 digits of the number pi
Pi
' is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter. is approximately equal to 3.14. Many formulae in mathematics, science, and engineering involve , which makes it one of the most important mathematical constants...
, and the book The Anagrammed Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, co-written with Richard Brodie, in which the roughly 95,000 letters of the original text are rearranged into a modern paraphrase.