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4 unusual facts about Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis


C.F. Jeff Wu

Later, he presented his lecture entitled “Statistics = Data Science?” as the first of his 1998 P.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lectures.

Nelson Annandale

His suggestion of a problem in anthropology to P. C. Mahalanobis led to the latters discovery of a technique that developed into the multivariate statistical techniques of today.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

A chance meeting with Nelson Annandale, then the director of the Zoological Survey of India, at the 1920 Nagpur session of the Indian Science Congress led to Annandale asking him to analyse anthropometric measurements of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta.

He was impressed by King's College Chapel there and his host's friend M. A. Candeth suggested that he could try joining there, which he did.


Dwijendranath Maitra

He was a member of Sukumar Ray's Monday Club, which had such noted personalities as Satyendranath Dutta, Suniti Kumar Chaterjee, Atul Prasad Sen, Kalidas Nag, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay as members.


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