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Gaston Tarry (27 September 1843 – 21 June 1913) was a
Gaston Tarry (27 September 1843 – 21 June 1913) was a French
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mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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. Born in Villefranche de Rouergue, Aveyron
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, he studied mathematics
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at high school before joining the civil service
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in Algeria
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. He pursued mathematics as an amateur
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In 1901 Tarry confirmed Leonhard Euler
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's conjecture that no 6×6 Graeco-Latin square was possible (the 36 officers problem).
See also
*List of amateur mathematicians
This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.
*Ahmes (scribe)
*Ashutosh Muk ...
* Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem
*Tarry point
In geometry, the Tarry point for a triangle is a point of concurrency of the lines through the vertices of the triangle perpendicular to the corresponding sides of the triangle's first Brocard triangle . The Tarry point lies on the other ...
* Tetramagic square
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