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Robert Richard Anstice (1813–1853) was an English clergyman and mathematician who wrote two remarkable papers on combinatorics,[2] published the same year he died in the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal. He pioneered the use of primitive roots in this field, anticipating the work of Eugen Netto on Steiner's triplets.
Robert Richard Anstice | |
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![]() First page of the second part of the article On a problem of combinations (1853) from the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal. | |
Born | |
Died | 17 December 1853 40) | (aged
Resting place | St. Michael's Church, Madeley, Shropshire[1] 52.633738°N 2.449895°W |
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Known for | Combinatorics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Anstice studied at Christ Church, Oxford,[3] where he graduated in 1835, receiving a Master's in 1837. Nothing is known about his life in the next ten years. In 1846, he was ordained priest, and in the following year he became rector of Wigginton, Hertfordshire.[4] He died there in 1853
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