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.
from Government Science College, Nagpur and went for further studies at the Indian Statistical Institute.
[3] Shrikhande received a Ph.D. in the year 1950 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the supervision of Raj Chandra Bose.
[4] His son Mohan Shrikhande[7] is a professor of combinatorial mathematics at Central Michigan University in Mt.