R. M. Wilson

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R. M. Wilson
Born
Richard Michael Wilson

(1945-11-23) 23 November 1945 (age 76)
Alma mater Indiana University (BS)
Ohio State University (MS, PhD)
Known for Kirkman's schoolgirl problem
Scientific career
Fields Combinatorics
Institutions Caltech
Doctoral advisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri [1]
Doctoral students Jeff Dinitz [1]
Pierre Baldi [1]
Website www.math.caltech.edu/people/wilson.html

Richard Michael Wilson (23 November 1945) is a mathematician and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. [2] Wilson and his PhD supervisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968.[ citation needed ] Wilson is known for his work in combinatorial mathematics.

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Education

Wilson was educated at Indiana University where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966. [2] followed by a Master of Science degree from Ohio State University in 1968. His PhD, also from Ohio State University was awarded in 1969 for research supervised by Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri. [1]

Career and research

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. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Richard Michael Wilson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 galvez, cherie. "Richard M. Wilson". www.math.caltech.edu.
  3. Arasu, KT; Liu, X.; McGuire, G. (2012). "Preface: Richard M. Wilson, Special issue honoring his 65th birthday". Designs, Codes and Cryptography: 1–2.