Mathematician:Gaston Tarry

Mathematician
Amateur French mathematician whose most famous achievement was confirming in $1901$ that no $6 \times 6$ Graeco-Latin square is possible.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 27 September 1843 in Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron, France
 * Died: 21 June 1913 in Le Havre, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Orthogonal Latin Squares of Order 6 do not Exist, that is, the Thirty-Six Officers Problem