Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande (born on October 19, 1917) is an India

India

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n mathematician

Mathematician

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 with distinguished and well-recognized achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He is notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker

E. T. Parker

Ernest Tilden Parker is a professor emeritus from Ohio State University. He is notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and S. S. Shrikhande in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal latin squares of...

 in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...

 dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal latin square

Latin square

In combinatorics and in experimental design, a Latin square is an n × n array filled with n different symbols, each occurring exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column...

s of order 4n + 2 for every n. Shrikhande's specialty was combinatorics, and statistical designs

Design of experiments

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. Shrikhande graph

Shrikhande graph

In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Shrikhande graph is a named graph discovered by S. S. Shrikhande in 1959. It is a strongly regular graph with 16 vertices and 48 edges, with each vertex having a degree of 6.-Properties:...

 is used in statistical designs.

Shrikhande received a Ph.D. in the year 1950 from the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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 at Chapel Hill under the direction of R. C. Bose. Shrikhande taught at various universities in the USA and in India.
Shrikhande was a professor of mathematics at Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University is a public university located in Varanasi, India and is one of the Central Universities of India. It is the largest residential university in Asia, with over 24,000 students in its campus. BHU was founded in 1916 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya under the Parliamentary...

, Banaras and the founding head of the department of mathematics, University of Mumbai

University of Mumbai

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 and the founding director of the Center of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Mumbai until he retired in 1978. He is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Institute, USA.

Shrikhande's son Mohan Shrikhande is a professor of combinatorial mathematics at Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...

 in Mt. Pleasant

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

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, Michigan

Michigan

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