Anil Kumar Gain
| Anil Kumar Gain | |
|---|---|
| Native name | অনীল কুমার গায়েন |
| Born |
1 February 1919 Bengal, British India |
| Died | 7 February 1978 (aged 59) Kolkata, India |
| Residence | Kolkata, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | India, United Kingdom |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics and Statistics |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge University of Calcutta Presidency College, Calcutta Indian Statistical Institute Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
| Alma mater |
University of Calcutta University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Ellis Daniels, FRS |
| Doctoral students | List |
| Known for |
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient Vidyasagar University |
| Notable awards |
RSS FCPS |
Anil Kumar Gain (Bengali: অনীল কুমার গায়েন), (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 famous 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.
Anil Kumar Gain was born in a poor Bengali family of a village named Lakkhi in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, to Jibankrishna Gain and Panchami Devi. His father having died in his childhood, he and his siblings were brought up by his widowed mother under economic hardship. He started his education in an informal local school and was admitted to a formal school when he was eight. In his schooldays, he showed particular interest in English and mathematics, subjects he was primarily taught by his mother. Upon finishing school, he travelled to Kolkata to study mathematics from Surendranath College, followed by a master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Calcutta. He was declared the University Gold Medalist for the year 1943.
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