Category:Named Theorems/Kirkman
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This category contains results named for Thomas Penyngton Kirkman.
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.
Thus he pre-empted Jakob Steiner in this by over $6$ years.
The Kirkman's Schoolgirl Problem is named after him.
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