Some comments on Latin squares and on Graeco-Latin squares, illustrated with postage stamps and old playing cards

George Styan (), Christian Boyer () and Ka Chu ()

Statistical Papers, 2009, vol. 50, issue 4, 917-941

Keywords: Bachet’s square; Bibliography; Bi-square; Raj Chandra Bose; József Dénes; Diagonal Latin squares of order 6; Leonhard Euler; Euler squares; Eulerian squares; Euler’s conjecture; Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher; Graeco-Roman squares; History; Simon de La Loubère; Knut Vik design; Knight’s move design; Knight’s tour; Magic squares; MOLS; Mutually orthogonal Latin squares; Jacques Ozanam; Ozanam–Grandin solution to the Magic Card Puzzle; Edward Tilden Parker; Parker’s Graeco-Latin square of order 10; Georges Perec; Abbé François-Guillaume Poignard; Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande; Thirty-six officers problem; Topical philately; Weißwurst Äquator; 01A45; 01A50; 05A99; 05B15; 62K05; 62K10; 62K15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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