T. P. Kirkman
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · b. 1806 – d. 1895 · 5 books
Biography
Thomas Penyngton Kirkman FRS was 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.
Books by T. P. Kirkman
Orthodoxy from the Hebrew poin
Orthodoxy from the Hebrew point of view
On the infidelity of orthodoxy
On the infidelity of orthodoxy
Truth against tradition
Truth against tradition
On the theory of the polyedra
On the theory of the polyedra
On the enumeration of x-edra h
On the enumeration of x-edra hhaving triedral summits, and an (x-1)-gonal base