Clement Wing Hong Lam (Chinese: 林永康) 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 .[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]
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edit- ^ Clement W. H. Lam; Larry Thiel; S. Swiercz (1989). "The Nonexistence of Finite Projective Planes of Order 10". Can. J. Math. 41 (6): 1117–1123. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.39.8684. doi:10.4153/cjm-1989-049-4.
- ^ Clement W. H. Lam at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Lam, C. W. H. (1991). "The search for a finite projective plane of order 10". Amer. Math. Monthly. 98 (4): 305–318. doi:10.2307/2323798. JSTOR 2323798.
- ^ Lam´s Problem at Mathworld