A new starting-point and a new method are requisite, to insure a complete classi?cation of the Steiner triple systems of order 15]. This method was furnished, and its tedious and di?cult execution und- taken, by Mr. Cole. F. N. Cole, L. D. Cummings, and H. S. White (1917) 129] The history of classifying combinatorial objects is as old as the history of the objects themselves. In the mid-19th century, Kirkman, Steiner, and others became the fathers of modern combinatorics, and their work on various objects, including (what became later known as) Steiner triple systems led to several...
A new starting-point and a new method are requisite, to insure a complete classi?cation of the Steiner triple systems of order 15]. This method was f...