Raj Chandra Bose Scientist

Raj Chandra Bose (19 June 1901 – 31 October 1987) was an Indian American mathematician and statistician best known for his work in design theory and the theory of error-correcting codes in which the class of BCH codes is partly named after him. 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 19, 1901
Birth place	India , Kolkata
Citizenship	United States
Date of death	October 31, 1987
Place of death	Colorado , Fort Collins Colorado
Residence	India
Education	University of Calcutta
Known for	Graeco-Latin square Association scheme Bose–Mesner algebra