R. M. Wilson

R. M. Wilson
R. M. Wilson
Born	Richard Michael Wilson; 23 November 1945; Gary, Indiana, US
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. Wilson is known for his work in combinatorial mathematics.

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]

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]

gollark: I have entered the final phase.

gollark: This actually says a lot, possibly maybe.

gollark: So you can go through arbitrarily many trivially.

gollark: Well, phase is a continuous property of waves.

gollark: This is canon.

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

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