R. C. Bose
| Raj Chandra Bose | |
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Raj Chandra Bose
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| Born |
19 June 1901 Calcutta, India |
| Died | 31 October 1987 (aged 86) Fort Collins, Colorado |
| Residence | India, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics and Statistics |
| Institutions |
Colorado State University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
| Doctoral students |
Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande |
| Known for |
Association scheme |
Association scheme
Bose–Mesner algebra
Euler's conjecture on Latin squares
Strongly regular graphs
Partial Geometries
Morse Code
Raj Chandra Bose (19 June 1901 – 31 October 1987) was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory, finite geometry and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. He also invented the notions of partial geometry, strongly regular graph, and started a systematic study of difference sets to construct symmetric block designs. He was notable for his work along with S. S. Shrikhande 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 every n.
Bose was born in Hoshangabad, India; he was the first of five children. His father was a physician and life was good until 1918 when his mother died in the influenza pandemic. His father died of a stroke the following year. Despite difficult circumstances, Bose continued to study securing first class in the M.A. examinations in pure mathematics at the University of Calcutta. His research was performed under the supervision of the geometry Professor Syamadas Mukhopadhyaya from Calcutta. Bose worked as a lecturer at Asutosh College, Calcutta. He published his work on the differential geometry of convex curves.
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