Mathematician:Thomas Penyngton Kirkman

Mathematician
British mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England, renowned for obtaining an existence theorem for Steiner triple systems that founded the field of combinatorial design theory.

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The Kirkman's Schoolgirl Problem is named after him.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 31 March 1806 in Bolton (near Manchester), England
 * 4 February 1895 in Bowdon (near Manchester), England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kirkman's Schoolgirl Problem

Publications

 * 1846: On a Problem in Combinatorics
 * 1848: On Pluquaternions and Homoid Products of n Squares
 * 1863: The complete theory of groups