Thomas Kirkman
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Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, FRS
A British mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England. Despite being primarily a churchman, he maintained an active interest in research-level mathematics, and was listed by Alexander Macfarlane as one of ten leading 19th-century British mathematicians. In the 1840s, he obtained an existence theorem for Steiner triple systems that founded the field of combinatorial design theory, while the related Kirkman's schoolgirl problem is named after him.…more
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The Great Mathematicians: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe
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2011
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