Clement W. H. Lam Explained

Clement Wing Hong Lam is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in combinatorics. He is famous for the computer proof, with Larry Thiel and S. Swiercz, of the nonexistence of a finite projective plane of order 10.^[1]

Lam earned his PhD in 1974 under Herbert Ryser at Caltech with thesis Rational G-Circulants Satisfying the Matrix Equation

A ^{2=d} I +λ J . He is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal.

In 2006 he received the Euler medal. In 1992 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award for the article The search for a finite projective plane of order 10.^[2] The eponymous Lam's problem is equivalent to finding a finite projective plane of order 10 or finding 9 orthogonal Latin squares of order 10.^[3]

See also

• Experimental mathematics

External links

• Homepage
• search on author CWH Lam from Google Scholar

Notes and References

1. Clement W. H. Lam . Larry Thiel . S. Swiercz . The Nonexistence of Finite Projective Planes of Order 10. Can. J. Math.. 41. 6 . 1989. 1117–1123. 10.4153/cjm-1989-049-4. 10.1.1.39.8684 .
2. The search for a finite projective plane of order 10. Amer. Math. Monthly. 98. 4. 1991. 305–318. 10.2307/2323798 . 2323798. Lam. C. W. H..
3. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LamsProblem.html Lam´s Problem at Mathworld