Anil Kumar Gain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anil Kumar Gain

Indian mathematician and statistician

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1919

Place of Birth: Bengal

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1978

Profession: mathematician, economist, statistician

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Anil Kumar Gain (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient in the field of applied statistics, with his colleague Ronald Fisher.
He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Henry Ellis Daniels, who was the then President of the Royal Statistical Society.
He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Cambridge Philosophical Society.Gain was the president of the statistics section of the Indian Science Congress Association, as well as the head of the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
He later went on to found Vidyasagar University, naming it after the famous social reformer of the Bengali Renaissance, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.