Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2009

Abstract

Design Theory, a branch of mathematics, was born out of the experimental statistics research of the population geneticist R A Fisher and of Indian mathematical statisticians in the 1930s. The field combines elements of combinatorics, finite projective geometries, Latin squares, and a variety of further mathematical structures, brought together in surprising ways. This essay will present these structures and ideas as well as how the field came together, in itself an interesting story. © Indian Academy of Sciences.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of Biosciences

First Page

353

Last Page

363

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