Historical notes on Steiner systems

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(84)90091-8MaRDI QIDQ801047zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hans Ludwig De Vries

Publication date 1984

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365X(84)90091-8

zbMATH Keywords

Julius PlückerT. P. KirkmanW. S. B. Woolehouse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of combinatorics (05-03) Triple systems (05B07)

Review text

The author points out that Steiner systems were treated before Steiner (1853) not only by W. S. B. Woolehouse (1844) and T. P. Kirkman (1847) but also by Julius Plücker (1835). He then goes on to discuss in detail Plücker's S(2,3,9).

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