Eric Milner
Eric Charles Milner (born May 17, 1928 , † July 20, 1997 in Calgary ) was a British-Canadian mathematician who dealt with combinatorics .
Milner grew up in London and attended King's College London from 1946 to 1951 (Master's degree in 1950), where he heard from Richard Rado and Charles Coulson (with whom he did research on quantum mechanics after graduating) and won the Drew Gold Medal. He did his PhD with Rado at the University of Reading . He then taught at the University of Singapore (then University of Malaya), the University of Reading and from 1967 as a professor at the University of Calgary in Canada.
Milner dealt among other things with the theory of the transversals from the intersection of combinatorics and set theory, which arose from considerations on the marriage theorem by Philip Hall . In 1974 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Vancouver (Transversal Theory).
In 1976 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .
Web links
- obituary
- Literature by and about Eric Milner in the WorldCat bibliographic database
References
- ↑ The transversal to a set of sets contains exactly one element from each set
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Milner, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Milner, Eric Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1928 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1997 |
| Place of death | Calgary |