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1893–1972 India

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (Bengali: প্রশান্তচন্দ্র মহলানবীশ) (June 29, 1893 – June 28, 1972) was a renowned Indian scientist and applied statistician. He was popularly address as P.C.Mahalanobis.

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In India, there's lack of appreciation of the need to cross-examine data, the responsibility of a statistician.

He sometimes spoke of "zero" as the symbol of the absolute (Nirguna Brahman) of the extreme monistic school of Hindu philosophy, that is, the reality to which no qualities can be attributed, which cannot be defined or described by words and which is completely beyond the reach of the human mind. According to Ramanujan the appropriate symbol was the number "zero" which is the absolute negation of all attributes.

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