In Memoriam S. S. Shrikhande
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande (19
October 1917 – 21 April 2020) was an Indian mathematician with distinguished
and well-recognized 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 specialty was combinatorics, and
statistical designs. Shrikhande graph is used in statistical designs.
“His graph is known for the beautiful
format it takes,” says Arun Muktibodh, retired Head of the Department of
Mathematics at Nagpur's Mohata Science College.
“It’s important to preserve his memory and work for generations,” said
Muktibodh, who produced a documentary on him two years ago. The film titled
‘Euler’s Spoiler: A Living Legend’ is archived by the film society of the
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. “With some fresh edits it will
be on YouTube soon,” he said. “That’s how new generations will know about the
man and his work.”
Shrikhande received a Ph.D. 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 USA
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 was a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian
Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA.
In 1991, he was named an Honorary
Fellow of the ICA. The full citation is
in the BICA (1), reproduced at the link: https://combinatoricsinstitute.blogspot.com/2019/07/honorary-fellow-s-s-srikhande.html
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