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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Gaston Tarry": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive