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Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande, Indian mathematician (died 2020)

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Born
October 19, 1917
Died
April 21, 2020
Zodiac sign
Libra
Birth year
1917

About Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande 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. Shrikhande's specialties were combinatorics and statistical designs. The Shrikhande graph is used in statistical design. Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande (19 October 1917 – 21 April 2020) was an Indian mathematician with notable achievements in combinatorial mathematics. Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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The world when Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande was born

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande was born in 1917. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1917

  • Best-selling book"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" – H.G. Wells

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentProfessional sports curtailed as America enters World War I
  • Top headlineUS enters World War I
  • Technology milestoneFirst practical military use of sonar
  • World population~1.77B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population100.8M

1917 versus 2026

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Gas$0.25$3.45/gal
Population100.8M341 million

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