Legendary Statistician And Mathematician CR Rao Turns 100

New Delhi:

Eminent statistician and mathematician C R Rao, identified for his path-breaking contributions to the sphere of statistics, turned 100 on Thursday.

The Division of Science and Expertise felicitated him on Wednesday and the occasion was nearly attended by high scientists, mathematicians and statisticians.

Describing him as an establishment builder, DST Secretary Ashutosh Sharma stated Rao educated generations of scientists, mathematicians and statisticians.

“Whereas there are totally different verticals (fields) in science, statistics is a horizontal that cuts by means of all these strains,” Mr Sharma stated.

Mr Sharma stated knowledge is the “new water” and the long run goes to revolve round it. Business four.zero and past is all about creating knowledge, analysing knowledge, constructing on knowledge and making nice discoveries with it, he stated.

“Prof. C R Rao was engaged on the science of knowledge 70 years in the past and was a lot forward of his instances. He’s not solely a scientist but in addition an establishment builder. The nation and the world will all the time be indebted to Prof Rao for his pioneering contributions to the sphere of statistics,” Mr Sharma stated.

Born on September 10, 1920 in Huvinahadagali, Karnataka, Rao accomplished his MA diploma in arithmetic at Andhra College. He did his MA diploma in statistics from Calcutta College in Kolkata, West Bengal.

Mr Rao is thought for ideas like ”Cramer Rao inequality”, ”Rao Blackwellisation” and ”Rao metric”.

He additionally labored on the Indian Statistical Institute for 40 years. Later, he moved to the USA and labored for one more 25 years on the College of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania State College.

Mr Rao is the writer of round 475 analysis papers revealed in prestigious journals and 11 books.

He additionally based the C R Rao Superior Institute of Arithmetic, Statistics and Laptop Science (AIMSCS) in Hyderabad.

Principal Scientific Adviser Okay VijayRaghavan stated Mr Rao”s work has immensely benefited the nation.

“A few of Prof. CR Rao’s work has had deep affect on genetics and that has nice affect on the work we do now,” Mr VijayRaghavan stated.

Bimal Roy, Chairman, Nationwide Statistical Fee, recalled that Rao”s understanding of statistics as a topic was not restricted to that subject alone, however he checked out it to seek out options within the different disciplines as nicely.

Recalling his interplay with Rao in early 2000, Shekhar Mande, Director Common of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Analysis (CSIR), stated when the legendary statistician got here to Hyderabad, the scientific group within the metropolis organised plenty of conferences.

“The scientific group in Hyderabad was fairly excited. He sat by means of all of the conferences, together with one by which I introduced a paper, taking eager curiosity in them,” Mr Mande stated.

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