Who Introduced Western Mathematicians to Latin Squares? (2019)
Richardson, John Thomas Edwin (Author)
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Pages: 95-103
A Latin square is a grid or array containing the same number of rows and columns. The cell entries are a sequence of symbols inserted in such a way that each symbol occurs only once in each row and only once in each column. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Latin squares have been studied in the field of combinatorics. This article is concerned with the issue of who, according to the published literature, introduced Western mathematicians to Latin squares. The first mathematician to provide a depiction of Latin squares seems to have been Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718), who demonstrated the use of Latin squares in a problem based on playing cards. However, he did not discuss the analytic properties or the potential applications of Latin squares. The first mathematician to provide an analytic description of Latin squares seems to have been Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Mallion, Roger;
(2008)
A Contemporary Eulerian Walk over the Bridges of Kaliningrad
(/isis/citation/CBB000931915/)
Article
Liu, Jianjun;
Liu, Qinying;
(2003)
Euler's Achievements in Combinatorics
(/isis/citation/CBB000500512/)
Article
Wilson, Robin;
(2008)
Euler's Combinatorial Mathematics
(/isis/citation/CBB000931914/)
Article
Erik R. Tou;
(2019)
Bernoullian Influences on Leonhard Euler’s Early Fluid Mechanics
(/isis/citation/CBB776843735/)
Article
Wilson, Robin;
(2014)
In the Footsteps of Euler and Macmahon: Combinatorics, the Mathematics That Counts
(/isis/citation/CBB001451422/)
Article
Francisco Gómez-García;
Pedro J. Herrero-Piñeyro;
Antonio Linero-Bas;
Ma. Rosa Massa-Esteve;
Antonio Mellado-Romero;
(2021)
The six books of Diophantus’ Arithmetic increased and reduced to specious: the lost manuscript of Jacques Ozanam (1640–1718)
(/isis/citation/CBB347141746/)
Chapter
Bréard, Andrea;
(2008)
Leibniz und Tschina. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kombinatorik?
(/isis/citation/CBB000950162/)
Article
Malet, Antoni;
(2006)
Renaissance Notions of Number and Magnitude
(/isis/citation/CBB000670255/)
Article
Kathleen M. Clark;
Emmet P. Harrington;
(2016)
The Paul A. M. Dirac Papers at Florida State University: A Search for Informal Mathematical Investigations
(/isis/citation/CBB029236391/)
Article
Basak, Subhash C.;
(2013)
Philosophy of Mathematical Chemistry: A Personal Perspective
(/isis/citation/CBB001320762/)
Article
Rau, A. R. P.;
(2009)
R. A. Fisher, Design Theory, and the Indian Connection
(/isis/citation/CBB001034002/)
Article
Anderson, Ian;
Crilly, Tony;
(2013)
Robert Richard Anstice (1813--1853): A Hertfordshire Bicentenary
(/isis/citation/CBB001212300/)
Article
Duan, Yaoyong;
(2004)
Discussing on the Zengcheng's Method of Extraction and JIA Xian's Arithmetical Triangle
(/isis/citation/CBB000401219/)
Chapter
Newstead, Anne G. J.;
(2000)
Aristotle and Modern Mathematical Theories of the Continuum
(/isis/citation/CBB000410683/)
Article
Pérez Canals, Enric;
(2002)
Combinatoria y teoría cuántica, 1910--1914
(/isis/citation/CBB000300776/)
Article
Shen, Kangshen;
(2003)
A Selected Analysis on the Study of Josephus' Problem in the Orient
(/isis/citation/CBB000340057/)
Article
Balaban, Alexandru T.;
(2013)
Chemical Graph Theory and the Sherlock Holmes Principle
(/isis/citation/CBB001320764/)
Book
Gutas, Dimitri;
(2000)
Greek Philosophers in the Arabic Tradition
(/isis/citation/CBB000102099/)
Article
Gallavotti, Giovanni;
(2013)
Aspects of Lagrange's Mechanics and their Legacy
(/isis/citation/CBB001320790/)
Article
Li, Guo-feng;
(2007)
The dissemination of Faraday's electromagnetic knowledge in late Qing Dynasty China
(/isis/citation/CBB000701115/)
Be the first to comment!