Anthony J. W. Hilton (born 4 April 1941) is a British mathematician specializing in combinatorics and graph theory.
From there he attended Reading University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1963 and was awarded a PhD in 1967.
[1] His dissertation was "Representation Theorems for Integers and Real Numbers" under his advisor David E.
[4] In 1998, he was awarded the Euler Medal for "a distinguished career in the work he has produced, the people he has trained, and his leadership in the development of combinatorics in Britain."
Among the specific things cited for are the creation of two new techniques for solving long standing problems.
Through the use of graph amalgamations he was able to show many results, including a method for enumerating Hamiltonian decompositions as well as a conjecture about embedding partial triple systems.