William Henry Whitfeld
Author and mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Henry Whitfeld was an English mathematician, leading expert on bridge and whist, and card editor for The Field. He is known as the poser of the Whitfeld Six problem in double dummy bridge. After graduating from Chatham House Grammar School, Whitfeld matriculated in 1876 at Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated there in 1880 with B.A. as twelfth wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos and in 1884 with M.A. For several years he was a tutor and lecturer at Cavendish College, Cambridge. In 1880 he published some double-dummy problems in whist in The Cambridge Review: A Journal of University Life and Thought . His famous problem now known as "Whitfeld Six" was published in the London magazine The Field in the January 31st 1885 issue.
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