Historical notes on Steiner systems
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Historical notes on Steiner systems
zbMATH Open document ID: 0551.01005
DOI: 10.1016/0012-365X(84)90091-8
author: Hans Ludwig De Vries
published in: Discrete Mathematics
publication date: 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
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).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05B07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05-03
zbMATH DE Number: 3877131
zbMATH Keywords: W. S. B. Woolehouse
zbMATH Keywords: T. P. Kirkman
zbMATH Keywords: Julius Plücker
reviewed by: Heinrich Guggenheimer
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: On Property B of Families of Sets
cites work: Q3937938
cites work: Q4745933
cites work: Topics on Steiner systems. Ed. by C. C. Lindner and A. Rosa
cites work: Über die Gruppen von Mathieu
cites work: Q5774182
Recommended article: Q4000953
Recommended article: Some remarks on Steiner systems
Recommended article: On the original Steiner systems
Recommended article: On the history of the Euclidean Steiner tree problem
Recommended article: Q4725233
Recommended article: Q3762328
Recommended article: Steiner systems and configurations of points
Recommended article: Some inequalities for Steiner systems
Recommended article: A Theorem on Steiner Systems
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3877131