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Thomas Kirkman

Thomas Penyngton Kirkman (31 March 1806–3 February 1895) was a British mathematician. An important expositor of group theory in English, he is now remembered principally for a combinatorial problem which bears his name. In contemporary terms, he proved an existence theorem for Steiner triple systems.[1] He also attempted to extend the theory of quaternions.
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