Clement Wing Hong Lam () is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many ...

. He is famous for the computer proof, with Larry Thiel and S. Swiercz, of the nonexistence of a

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of order 10. Lam earned his PhD in 1974 under Herbert Ryser at

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with thesis ''Rational G-Circulants Satisfying the Matrix Equation

A^2=d I+\lambda J

''. He is a professor at

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. In 2006 he received the

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. In 1992 he received the

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for the article ''The search for a finite projective plane of order 10''. The eponymous Lam's problem is equivalent to finding a finite projective plane of order 10 or finding 9 orthogonal

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s of order 10.Lam´s Problem at Mathworld
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