Chris Freiling

Christopher Francis Freiling is a mathematician responsible for Freiling's axiom of symmetry in set theory.^[1] He has also made significant contributions to coding theory, in the process establishing connections between that field and matroid theory.^[2]

Freiling obtained his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Donald A. Martin.^[3] He is a member of the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at California State University, San Bernardino.^[4]

Selected publications

• Freiling, Chris (1986), "Axioms of symmetry: throwing darts at the real number line", The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 51 (1): 190–200, doi:10.2307/2273955, ISSN 0022-4812, JSTOR 2273955, MR 0830085, S2CID 38174418
• Dougherty, Randall; Freiling, Christopher; Zeger, Kenneth (2005), "Insufficiency of linear coding in network information flow", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 51 (8): 2745–2759, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.218.5329, doi:10.1109/TIT.2005.851744, S2CID 2543400.
• Dougherty, Randall; Freiling, Chris; Zeger, Kenneth (2007), "Networks, matroids, and non-Shannon information inequalities", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 53 (6): 1949–1969, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.218.3066, doi:10.1109/TIT.2007.896862, MR 2321860, S2CID 27096.