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Choi Seok-jeong

was born 378 years ago

2 July 1646

Choi Seok-jeong was a Korean politician and mathematician who was the first to find orthogonal Latin squares. He constructed magic squares and invented the Hexagonal Tortoise Problem.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Choi_Seok-jeong/