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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande
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He is notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and East. 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 every n. Shrikhande"s specialty was combinatorics, and statistical designs. Shrikhande graph is used in statistical designs.
Shrikhande received a Doctor of Philosophy in the year 1950 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the direction of R. C. Bose.
Shrikhande taught at various universities in the United States of America and in India. Shrikhande was a professor of mathematics at Banaras Hindu University, Banaras and the founding head of the department of mathematics, University of Mumbai 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, United States of America. Shrikhande"s son Mohan Shrikhande is a professor of combinatorial mathematics at Central Michigan University in Mountain. Pleasant, Michigan.
