- Shrikhande S. S.
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name = Sharadchandr S. Shrikhande
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birth_date = birth date|1917|10|19|mf=y
birth_place = Sagar, Madhya Pradesh,India
residence =Michigan , US
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field =Combinatorics
work_institutions =Mumbai University ,India ,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ,Banaras Hindu University ,India
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doctoral_advisor = Dr.Raj Chandra Bose |
known_for =Euler's conjecture
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footnotes =Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande was born on
October 19 ,1917 inSagar ,Madhya Pradesh ,India . He is notable for his work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famousconjecture made byLeonhard Euler in 1782.Biography
Shrikhande taught at various universities in the US and in India. [citation|url=http://mospi.nic.in/mospi_stat_news_letter.htm|journal=Statistical Newsletter|date=July-September 2003|volume=XXVIII|issue=3|title=Prof. S. S. Shrikhande – An Outstanding Statistician|page=3.] Currently (2008), he resides in
Michigan , US. He is father of four children, and has five grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.Shrikande served as a Professor of Mathematics at
Banaras Hindu University ,Banaras . He was Head of the Department of Mathematics,University of Mumbai and the Director of the Center of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Mumbai since its inception in 1963 until he retired in 1978.Shrikhande's Ph.D. students were S. Bhagavan Das,
Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak andNavin M. Singhi .mathgenealogy|name=Shartchandra S. Shrikhande|id=47278.]Contributions to mathematics
His specialty was
combinatorics and statistical designs. He is notable for his work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famousconjecture made byLeonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonallatin square s of order 4n + 2 for every n. [citation|title=Major Mathematical Conjecture Propounded 177 Years Ago Is Disproved|publisher=New York Times |date=April 26, 1959|last=Osmundsen|first=John A.|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50613FB355C1A7B93C4AB178FD85F4D8585F9. [http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/lam/paper/html/NYTimes.html Scan of full article] .] Shrikhande is also known for discovering theShrikhande graph which is used inbalanced incomplete block design s for experiments.One of his children, [http://www.cst.cmich.edu/units/mth/gradinfo/pp/MTHShrikhande.html Mohan Shrikhande] , is a Professor of Combinatorial Mathematics at
Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant,Michigan .Co-authors
Shrikhande's co-authors include
Navin M. Singhi ,Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak ,E. T. Parker,Raj Chandra Bose,Siddani Bhaskara Rao ,Ranjan Naik,Sharad Sane,N. C. Jain,D. Raghava Rao,S. Bhagavan Das,W. H. Clatworthy,W. B. Taylor,H. Hartley,Olkin, I,W. Hoeffdig, andN. K. Singh.Shrikhande's
Erdős number is 2.elected publications
*citation | last1 = Bose | first1 = R. C. | last2 = Shrikhande | first2 = S. S.
title = On the falsity of Euler's conjecture about the non-existence of two orthogonal Latin squares of order 4"t"+2
journal =Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
volume = 45 | issue = 5 | year = 1959 | pages = 734–737
url = http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=222625.*citation
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-4851(197004)41%3A2%3C683%3AAEOWTF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
title = An Extension of Wilks' Test for the Equality of Means
first1 = I. | last1 = Olkin | first2 = S. S. | last2 = Shrikhande
journal = The Annals of Mathematical Statistics
volume = 41 | issue = 2 | year = 1970 | pages = 683-687.*citation
first1 = Ranjan N. | last1 = Naik
first2 = S. B. | last2 = Rao
first3 = S. S. | last3 = Shrikhande
first4 = N. M. | last4 = Singhi
title = Intersection graphs of "k"-uniform hypergraphs
journal = European J. Combinatorics | volume = 3 | pages = 159–172 | year = 1982
id = MathSciNet | id = 0670849.*citation
first1 = S.S. | last1 = Shrikhande
title = The uniqueness of the L2 association scheme
journal = Ann .Math. Statist. | volume = 30 | pages = 781-798 | year = 1959.References
External links
* [http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/drg/graphs/Shrikhande.html An explanation of the Shrikhande graph] .
* [http://www.oakland.edu/enp/Erdos0 Erdos Number Project]
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