Raj Chandra Bose
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Raj Chandra Bose | |
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Notable Awards Elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences | |
Awards | Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics and Statistics |
Institutions | Indian Statistical Institute Colorado State University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Doctoral students | Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande J. N. Srivastava |
Raj Chandra Bose (or Basu) (19 June 1901 – 31 October 1987) was an
Early life
Bose was born in
Academic life
Bose's course changed in December 1932 when P. C. Mahalanobis, director of the new (1931) Indian Statistical Institute, offered Bose a part-time job. Mahalanobis had seen Bose's geometrical work and wanted him to work on statistics. The day after Bose moved in, the secretary brought him all the volumes of Biometrika with a list of 50 papers to read and also Ronald Fisher's Statistical Methods for Research Workers. Mahalanobis told him, "You were saying that you do not know much statistics. You master the 50 papers ... and Fisher's book. This will suffice for your statistical education for the present." With Samarendra Nath Roy, who joined the ISI a little later, Bose was the chief mathematician at the Institute.
He first worked with multivariate analysis where he collaborated with Mahalanobis and Roy. In 1938–9 Fisher visited India and talked about the design of experiments. Roy had the idea of using the theory of
In 1935 Bose had become full-time at the Institute. In 1940 joined the University of Calcutta where C. R. Rao and H. K. Nandi were in the first group of students he taught. In 1945 Bose became Head of the Department of Statistics. University authorities in the United States told him he needed to have a doctorate. So he submitted his published papers on multivariate analysis and the design of experiments and was awarded a
In 1947 Bose went to the United States as a visiting professor at Columbia University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received offers from American universities and he was also offered positions in India. The Indian jobs involved very heavy administration, which he saw as the end of his research work and in March 1949 he joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as Professor of Statistics.
In the years at Chapel Hill Bose made important discoveries on
Bose died in Colorado, aged 86, in 1987. He is survived by two daughters. The elder, Purabi Schur, is retired from the Library of Congress and the younger, Sipra Bose Johnson, is retired as a professor of anthropology from the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Some articles by R. C. Bose
- R. C. Bose, On the construction of balanced incomplete block designs, Annals of Eugenics. 9 (1939), 358–399.
- R. C. Bose and K. R. Nair, Partially balanced incomplete block designs, Sankhya 4 (1939), 337–372.
- Bose, Raj Chandra; Mesner, D. M. (1959). "On linear associative algebras corresponding to association schemes of partially balanced designs". MR 0102157.
- R. C. Bose and S. S. Shrikhande, On the falsity of Euler's conjecture about the non-existence of two orthogonal Latin squares of order 4t + 2, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 45, (1959), 734–737.
- R. C. Bose and D.K. Ray-ChaudhuriOn a class of error-correcting binary codes, Information and control, 3, (1960), 68–79.
Autobiography
- J. Gani (ed) (1982) The Making of Statisticians, New York: Springer-Verlag.
This has a chapter in which Bose tells the story of his life.
Discussions
- Norman R. Draper (1990) Obituary: Raj Chandra Bose, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Vol. 153, No. 1. pp. 98–99.
- "Bose, Raj Chandra", pp. 183–184 in Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, (ed. N. L. Johnson and S. Kotz) 1997. New York: Wiley. Originally p
See also
External links
- R. C. Bose:another photograph on the Portraits of Statisticians page.
- Indian Statistical Institute: useful background information
- Raj Chandra Bose at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Peter Cameron's Quotes on Mathematics: where the story about fields comes from
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Euler's Graeco-Roman Squares Conjecture". MathWorld.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Raj Chandra Bose", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews