Choi Seok-jeong (; 1646–1715) was a Korean politician and mathematician in the Joseon period of Korea. He published the ''Gusuryak'' () in 1700, the first known literature on

Latin squares In combinatorics and in experimental design, a Latin square is an ''n'' × ''n'' array filled with ''n'' different symbols, each occurring exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column. An example of a 3×3 Latin s ...

, predating

Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...

by at least 67 years. He also invented the hexagonal tortoise problem. Choi was a member of the Jeonju Choe clan.

Choi Seok-jeong Award

The Choi Seok-jeong Award was created in 2021 to recognize those who develop or spread mathematics. Spelling of laureates' names matches their Wikipedia page, if it exists, the remainder used Revised Romanization of Korean with th
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Korean mathematicians 1646 births 1715 deaths 18th-century Korean mathematicians 17th-century Korean mathematicians {{Asia-mathematician-stub