Thomas Gerald Room

FRS FAA
Thomas Gerald Room
Born(1902-11-02)2 November 1902
Died2 April 1986(1986-04-02) (aged 83)
NationalityAustralian
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney

Thomas Gerald Room FRS FAA (10 November 1902 – 2 April 1986) was an Australian mathematician who is best known for Room squares. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.[1][2]

  1. ^ Hirschfeld, J. W. P.; Wall, G. E. (1987). "Thomas Gerald Room. 10 November 1902 – 2 April 1986". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 33: 575–601. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1987.0020. JSTOR 769963. S2CID 73328766.. Also published in Historical Records of Australian Science 7 (1): 109–122, doi:10.1071/HR9870710109. An abridged version is online at the web site of the Australian Academy of Science.
  2. ^ John Mack. "Room, Thomas Gerald (1902–1986)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. First published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 18, (MUP), 2012.