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This is the biography of a mathematician of note, who has come to prominence as a father of modern Combinatorics. His work presaged many of the topics in what has become, since the 1960s, Discrete Mathematics. The technicalities of his work could be seen as advanced, but this biography is not about technicalities. I have striven to describe the life of this mathematician and the world he inhabited, accessible to those without a strong mathematical background. It should have meaning for the general reader. I have attempted to convey the life of Kirkman as a Victorian polymath, a man who in his time was known for controversial views.…mehr

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This is the biography of a mathematician of note, who has come to prominence as a father of modern Combinatorics. His work presaged many of the topics in what has become, since the 1960s, Discrete Mathematics. The technicalities of his work could be seen as advanced, but this biography is not about technicalities. I have striven to describe the life of this mathematician and the world he inhabited, accessible to those without a strong mathematical background. It should have meaning for the general reader. I have attempted to convey the life of Kirkman as a Victorian polymath, a man who in his time was known for controversial views.
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Autorenporträt
There is no other full length biography of Kirkman. This could be seen as linked to my previous biography of the mathematician Arthur Cayley (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) and in the same time period of other of my writings of Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859) (Springer 2020), Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) (Cambridge University Press 2024) and William Whewell (1794-1866) (University of Pittsburg Press, 2024).