Robert Richard Anstice (1813–1853) was an English clergyman and
mathematician
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who wrote two remarkable papers on
combinatorics
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, 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
Eugen Otto Erwin Netto (30 June 1848 – 13 May 1919) was a German mathematician. He was born in Halle and died in Giessen.
Netto's theorem, on the dimension-preserving properties of continuous bijections, is named for Netto. Netto publish ...
on
Steiner's triplets.
Anstice studied at
Christ Church, Oxford
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, 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
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.
[, MacTutor History of Mathematics.] He died there in 1853
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19th-century English mathematicians
1813 births
1853 deaths