MacNeish’s conjecture

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history of combinatorics studies

  • Ferrers' partitioning diagram for 14
    In combinatorics: Orthogonal Latin squares

    MacNeish’s conjecture, if true, would imply the truth of Euler’s but not conversely. The U.S. mathematician E.T. Parker in 1958 disproved the conjecture of MacNeish. This left open the question of Euler’s conjecture. Bose and the Indian mathematician S.S. Shrikhande in 1959–60 obtained the first…

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