R. M. Wilson

R. M. Wilson
Born (1945-11-23)23 November 1945
Gary, Indiana
Residence USA
Citizenship USA
Nationality USA
Fields Combinatorics
Institutions Caltech
Alma mater Ohio State University
Doctoral advisor D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri
Doctoral students Jeff Dinitz
Known for Kirkman's schoolgirl problem

Richard Michael Wilson (23 November 1945) is a mathematician and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Wilson and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, his Ph.D advisor, solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968. Wilson is known for his work in combinatorial mathematics.

His breakthrough in pairwise balanced designs, and orthogonal Latin squares built upon the groundwork set before him, by R. C. Bose, E. T. Parker, S. S. Shrikhande, and Haim Hanani is widely referenced in Combinatorial Design Theory and Coding Theory.[1]

Academic papers

References

  1. Arasu, KT; Liu, X.; McGuire, G. (2012). "Preface: Richard M. Wilson, Special issue honoring his 65th birthday". Designs, Codes and Cryptography (Springer): 1–2.

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