Article ID: CBB001212300

Robert Richard Anstice (1813--1853): A Hertfordshire Bicentenary (2013)

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R R Anstice was a little known English clergyman who made significant contributions to Combinatorics, anticipating results in modern design theory. The year 2013 is the 200th anniversary of his birth. Anstice took the first steps in treating Combinatorial Design Theory as part of Algebra, in retrospect anticipating many later developments. In particular he touched on an important structure now known as a `Room square', named after the twentieth century Anglo-Australian mathematician T G Room. Here we review Anstice's short life and give an account of his mathematics.

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Authors & Contributors
Ehrhardt, Caroline
Wilson, Robin J.
Emmet P. Harrington
Asselah, Katia
Sørensen, Henrik Kragh
Richardson, John Thomas Edwin
Concepts
Mathematics
Discrete mathematics
Algebra
Mathematicians
Group theory
East Asia, civilization and culture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Ancient
20th century, late
20th century, early
Renaissance
Places
France
China
India
Russia
Japan
Greece
Institutions
Florida State University
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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