Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande

Sharadchandra S. Shrikhande
Born(1917-10-19)19 October 1917
Sagar, British India (Now in Madhya Pradesh, India)
Died21 April 2020(2020-04-21) (aged 102)
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Known forEuler's conjecture
Shrikhande graph
Scientific career
FieldsCombinatorics
InstitutionsUniversity of Mumbai,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Banaras Hindu University
Doctoral advisorRaj Chandra Bose

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande (19 October 1917 – 21 April 2020) was an Indian mathematician with notable achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He was notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal latin squares of order 4n + 2 for any n.[1] Shrikhande's specialties were combinatorics and statistical designs. The Shrikhande graph[2] is used in statistical design.

  1. ^ Osmundsen, John A. (26 April 1959), "Major Mathematical Conjecture Propounded 177 Years Ago Is Disproved", New York Times. Scan of full article.
  2. ^ Shrikhande graph