Choi Seok-jeong
Choi Seok-jeong (Korean: 최석정; Hanja: 崔錫鼎; 1646–1715) was a Korean politician and mathematician in the Joseon period of Korea. He published the Gusuryak (Korean: 구수략; Hanja: 九數略) in 1700,[1] which is the first literature on the Latin square,[2] predating Leonhard Euler by at least 67 years.[3][4] He also invented the hexagonal tortoise problem.[5]
References
- ^ "구수략(九數略)". 규장각 문화재청. Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Colbourn, Charles J.; Dinitz, Jeffrey H. Handbook of Combinatorial Designs, Second Edition. CRC Press. p. 12. ISBN 9781420010541. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ "Math&Presso" (PDF). 3. International Congress of Mathematicians. August 15, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Kim, Sung Sook (2012). Orthogonal Latin Squares of Choi Seok-Jeong (PDF). History and Pedagogy of Mathematics. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. p. 689. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
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