R. M. Wilson

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Who is R. M. Wilson?

Richard Michael Wilson 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.

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Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Ohio State University
Lived in
  • United States of America

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on July 23, 2013

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