Richard Michael Wilson is a mathematician and a professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. Wilson and his PhD supervisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968. Wilson is known for his work in combinatorial mathematics, as well as on historical flutes.
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 23, 1945