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Thomas Gerald Room
Australian mathematician (1902-1986) · Australia · On the map · Academics · Died at 83
Thomas Gerald Room FRS FAA was an Australian mathematician who is best known for Room squares. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Room was born in London and educated at St John's College, Cambridge he moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1935.
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During the Second World War he worked for the Australian government to decrypt coded Japanese communications. After the war Room became dean of the faculty of science at the University of Sydney and later worked in the US and England.
