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For the musician, see <a href="/wiki/Robin_Wilson_(musician)" title="Robin Wilson (musician)">Robin Wilson (musician)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Honourable" title="The Honourable">The Honourable</a></div><div class="fn">Robin Wilson</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Robin_Wilson_outside_Gresham_College_-_23jun11.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Robin_Wilson_outside_Gresham_College_-_23jun11.JPG/220px-Robin_Wilson_outside_Gresham_College_-_23jun11.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Robin_Wilson_outside_Gresham_College_-_23jun11.JPG/330px-Robin_Wilson_outside_Gresham_College_-_23jun11.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Robin_Wilson_outside_Gresham_College_-_23jun11.JPG/440px-Robin_Wilson_outside_Gresham_College_-_23jun11.JPG 2x" data-file-width="691" data-file-height="815" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Robin Wilson in 2011</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Robin James Wilson</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1943-12-05</span>) </span>5 December 1943<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 80)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a> (<a href="/wiki/B._A." class="mw-redirect" title="B. A.">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> (<a href="/wiki/M._A." class="mw-redirect" title="M. A.">MA</a>, <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Joy Crispin</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1968)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mary_Wilson,_Lady_Wilson_of_Rievaulx" title="Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx">Mary Baldwin</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Graph_theory" title="Graph theory">Graph theory</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Open_University" title="Open University">Open University</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Gresham_College" title="Gresham College">Gresham College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nesmith_Ankeny" title="Nesmith Ankeny">Nesmith Ankeny</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Amanda_Chetwynd" title="Amanda Chetwynd">Amanda Chetwynd</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robin James Wilson</b> (born 5 December 1943) is an English mathematician. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics at the <a href="/wiki/Open_University" title="Open University">Open University</a>, having previously been Head of the Pure Mathematics Department and Dean of the Faculty.<sup id="cite_ref-ou-maths_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ou-maths-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a stipendiary lecturer at <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Oxford" title="Pembroke College, Oxford">Pembroke College, Oxford</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, from 2004 to 2008, <a href="/wiki/Gresham_Professor_of_Geometry" title="Gresham Professor of Geometry">Gresham Professor of Geometry</a> at <a href="/wiki/Gresham_College" title="Gresham College">Gresham College</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-gresham-webpage_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gresham-webpage-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On occasion, he teaches at <a href="/wiki/Colorado_College" title="Colorado College">Colorado College</a> in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is also a long standing fellow of <a href="/wiki/Keble_College,_Oxford" title="Keble College, Oxford">Keble College, Oxford</a>. </p><p>Professor Wilson is a son of former British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a> and his wife, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Wilson,_Lady_Wilson_of_Rievaulx" title="Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx">Mary</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Wilson_(mathematician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson was born in 1943 to the politician <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a>, who later became <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a>, and his wife the poet <a href="/wiki/Mary_Wilson,_Lady_Wilson_of_Rievaulx" title="Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx">Mary Wilson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Given_name#Name_at_birth" title="Given name">née</a> Baldwin). He has a younger brother, Giles, who in his 50s gave up a career as a teacher to be a train driver.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson attended <a href="/wiki/University_College_School" title="University College School">University College School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hampstead" title="Hampstead">Hampstead</a>, North London. He achieved a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a> First Class Honours in Mathematics from <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Balliol College">Balliol College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a>, and a PhD from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> (1965–1968). In a <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian"><i>Guardian</i></a> interview in 2008, Wilson spoke of the fact he grew up known to everyone primarily as a son of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Leader of the Labour Party (UK)">leader</a> and Prime Minister Harold Wilson: "I hated the attention and I still dislike being introduced as Harold Wilson's son. I feel uncomfortable talking about it to strangers even now."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mathematics_career">Mathematics career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Wilson_(mathematician)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mathematics career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson's academic interests lie in <a href="/wiki/Graph_theory" title="Graph theory">graph theory</a>, particularly in <a href="/wiki/Graph_coloring" title="Graph coloring">colouring</a> problems, e.g. the <a href="/wiki/Four_color_theorem" title="Four color theorem">four colour problem</a>, and algebraic properties of graphs. He also researches the <a href="/wiki/History_of_mathematics" title="History of mathematics">history of mathematics</a>, particularly British mathematics and mathematics in the 17th century and the period 1860 to 1940, and the history of graph theory and <a href="/wiki/Combinatorics" title="Combinatorics">combinatorics</a>. </p><p>In 1974, he won the <a href="/wiki/Lester_R._Ford_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Lester R. Ford Award">Lester R. Ford Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Association_of_America" title="Mathematical Association of America">Mathematical Association of America</a> for his expository article <i>An introduction to <a href="/wiki/Matroid" title="Matroid">matroid</a> theory</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to his collaboration on a 1977 paper<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian people">Hungarian</a> mathematician <a href="/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s" title="Paul Erdős">Paul Erdős</a>, Wilson has an <a href="/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number" title="Erdős number">Erdős number</a> of 1. </p><p>In July 2008, he published a study of the mathematical work of <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>, the creator of <i><a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass" title="Through the Looking-Glass">Through the Looking-Glass</a></i> — <i>Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life</i> (Allen Lane, 2008. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7139-9757-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7139-9757-6">978-0-7139-9757-6</a>). From January 1999 to September 2003, Wilson was editor-in-chief of the <a href="/wiki/European_Mathematical_Society" title="European Mathematical Society">European Mathematical Society</a> Newsletter and in 2003-2008 an Associate Editor.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is past President of the <a href="/wiki/British_Society_for_the_History_of_Mathematics" title="British Society for the History of Mathematics">British Society for the History of Mathematics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ou-webpage_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ou-webpage-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 1985, Robin Wilson has edited the <a href="/wiki/Mathematics_on_stamps" title="Mathematics on stamps">mathematics on stamps</a> "Stamp Corner" column for the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mathematical_Intelligencer" title="The Mathematical Intelligencer">Mathematical Intelligencer</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_interests">Other interests</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Wilson_(mathematician)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other interests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He has strong interests in music, including the operas of <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan" title="Gilbert and Sullivan">Gilbert and Sullivan</a>, and is the co-author (with <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Lloyd" title="Frederic Lloyd">Frederic Lloyd</a>) of <i>Gilbert and Sullivan: The Official D'Oyly Carte Picture History</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007, he was a guest on <i><a href="/wiki/Private_Passions" title="Private Passions">Private Passions</a></i>, the biographical music discussion programme on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_3" title="BBC Radio 3">BBC Radio 3</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Wilson_(mathematician)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson is married and has twin daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-20081007_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-20081007-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Wilson_(mathematician)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson has written or edited about thirty books, including popular books on <a href="/wiki/Sudoku" title="Sudoku">sudoku</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Four_Color_Theorem" class="mw-redirect" title="Four Color Theorem">Four Color Theorem</a>: </p> <ul><li><i>Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First 400 Years</i> (editor), Oxford University Press, 2022: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-886903-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-886903-0">978-0-19-886903-0</a></li> <li><i>Number Theory: A Very Short Introduction</i>, Oxford University Press, 2020: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-879809-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-879809-5">978-0-19-879809-5</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Turing_Guide" title="The Turing Guide">The Turing Guide</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Jack_Copeland" title="Jack Copeland">Jack Copeland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Bowen" title="Jonathan Bowen">Jonathan Bowen</a>, Mark Sprevak, et al.), <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 2017: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198747826" title="Special:BookSources/978-0198747826">978-0198747826</a> (hardcover), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198747833" title="Special:BookSources/978-0198747833">978-0198747833</a> (paperback)<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction,</i> Oxford University Press, 2016: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-872349-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-872349-3">978-0-19-872349-3</a></li> <li><i>Combinatorics: Ancient & Modern</i> (with John Watkins), Oxford University Press, 2013: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-965659-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-965659-2">0-19-965659-2</a></li> <li><i>The Great Mathematicians</i> (with <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Flood_(mathematician)" title="Raymond Flood (mathematician)">Raymond Flood</a>), Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2011: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84837-902-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-84837-902-1">1-84837-902-1</a></li> <li><i>Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life</i>, Allen Lane, 2008: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7139-9757-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7139-9757-6">978-0-7139-9757-6</a></li> <li><i>Hidden Word Sudoku</i>, Infinite Ideas Limited 2005: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-904902-74-X" title="Special:BookSources/1-904902-74-X">1-904902-74-X</a></li> <li><i>How to Solve Sudoku</i>, Infinite Ideas Limited 2005: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-904902-62-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-904902-62-6">1-904902-62-6</a></li> <li><i>Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History</i> (co-edited with Marlow Anderson and <a href="/wiki/Victor_J._Katz" title="Victor J. Katz">Victor J. Katz</a>), The Mathematical Association of America, 2004: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-88385-546-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-88385-546-1">0-88385-546-1</a></li> <li><i>Mathematics and Music: From Pythagoras to Fractals</i> (co-edited with John Fauvel & <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Flood_(mathematician)" title="Raymond Flood (mathematician)">Raymond Flood</a>), Oxford University Press, 2003: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-851187-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-851187-6">0-19-851187-6</a></li> <li><i>Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved</i>, Allen Lane (Penguin), 2002: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7139-9670-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-7139-9670-6">0-7139-9670-6</a></li> <li><i>Stamping through Mathematics</i>, Springer, 2001: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-387-98949-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-387-98949-8">0-387-98949-8</a></li> <li><i>Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences</i> (with John Fauvel & <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Flood_(mathematician)" title="Raymond Flood (mathematician)">Raymond Flood</a>), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-852309-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-852309-2">0-19-852309-2</a></li> <li><i>Graphs and Applications: An Introductory Approach</i> (with Joan Aldous), Springer, 2000: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85233-259-X" title="Special:BookSources/1-85233-259-X">1-85233-259-X</a></li> <li><i>Mathematical Conversations: Selections from the Mathematical Intelligencer</i> (with <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Gray" title="Jeremy Gray">J. Gray</a>), Springer, 2000: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-387-98686-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-387-98686-3">0-387-98686-3</a></li> <li><i>An Atlas of Graphs</i> (with Ronald Read), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-853289-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-853289-X">0-19-853289-X</a> (paperback edition, 2002: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-852650-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-852650-4">0-19-852650-4</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Graph_Theory,_1736%E2%80%931936" title="Graph Theory, 1736–1936">Graph Theory, 1736–1936</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Norman_L._Biggs" title="Norman L. Biggs">Norman L. Biggs</a> and Keith Lloyd), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-853901-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-853901-0">0-19-853901-0</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Wilson_(mathematician)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ou-maths-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ou-maths_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/People/r.j.wilson">"Prof Robin Wilson"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 December</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Prof+Robin+Wilson&rft.place=UK&rft.pub=Open+University%2C+Department+of+Mathematics+And+Statistics&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathematics.open.ac.uk%2FPeople%2Fr.j.wilson&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobin+Wilson+%28mathematician%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/Fellows_Staff/Fellow_and_Staff_Profiles.php?profile=259">Pembroke College website</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gresham-webpage-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-gresham-webpage_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-robin-wilson">"Professor Robin Wilson"</a>. 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Ford Awards, Mathematical Association of America</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson,_R._J.1973" class="citation journal cs1">Wilson, R. J. (1973). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/an-introduction-to-matroid-theory">"An introduction to matroid theory"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Amer._Math._Monthly" class="mw-redirect" title="Amer. Math. Monthly">Amer. Math. 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