Write a biography on the great mathematician C.R. Rao and their contributions towards math's
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Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao (born 10 September 1920) is an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honoured by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002.
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Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao (born 10 September 1920) is an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honoured by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002.[4] The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine."[4] The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time.[5] Rao is also a Senior Policy and Statistics advisor for the Indian Heart Association non-profit focused on raising South Asian cardiovascular disease awareness.[6]
C. R. Rao
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao at ISI Chennai (cropped).JPG
Prof. Rao at the Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai in April 2012
Born
10 September 1920 (age 100)
Hadagali, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Karnataka, India)[1][2]
Citizenship
United States[3]
Education
Andhra University (M.A.)
University of Calcutta (M.A.)
King's College, Cambridge (Ph.D., Sc.D.)
Known for
Cramér–Rao bound
Rao–Blackwell theorem
Orthogonal arrays
Score test
Awards
Padma Vibhushan
National Medal of Science (2001)
S. S. Bhatnagar Prize
Guy Medal (Silver 1965, Gold 2011)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics and Statistics
Institutions
Indian Statistical Institute
Cambridge University
Pennsylvania State University
University at Buffalo
Thesis
Statistical Problems of Biological Classifications (1948)
Doctoral advisor
Ronald Fisher
Doctoral students
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
K. R. Parthasarathy
Veeravalli S. Varadarajan
Debabrata Basu
Radha Laha
Ravindra Khattree
Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy
Dabeeru C. Rao
Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka
Early life
Selected publications
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Further reading
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