Bruck, Richard Hubert.

Dr. Richard Hubert Bruck was a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Richard Hubert Bruck (1914-1991) received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1940 and continued his career as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, serving as advisor to 31 students. Bruck was a 1946-1947 Guggenheim Fellow of Mathematics and a 1963 Fulbright Lecturer in Canberra, Australia. In 1951 Bruck collaborated with H. J. Ryser to prove the Bruck-Ryser Theorem, now known as the Bruck-Ryser-Chowla Theorem, which is the only general nonexistence theorem for finite projective planes to date. He also introduced finite nets in 1951 and in 1956 was awarded the Mathematical Association of America’s Chauvenet Prize for his article entitled “Recent Advances in the foundations of Euclidean Plane Geometry,” which had been published the previous year in American Mathematical Monthly .