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Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi

1907 - 1966

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Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (31 July 1907 – 29 June 1966) was an Indian polymath with interests in mathematics, statistics, philology, history, and genetics. He contributed to genetics by introducing the Kosambi map function. In statistics, he was the first person to develop orthogonal infinite series expressions for stochastic processes via the Kosambi–Karhunen–Loève theorem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi has received more than 326,995 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi is the 5,820th most popular writer, the 758th most popular biography from India and the 110th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi ranks 5,820 out of 7,302. Before him are Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Vítězslav Hálek, Vigdis Hjorth, and Thomas Linacre. After him are Fatos Arapi, Miho Mosulishvili, Ann Bannon, Thomas Campbell, Carol Shields, and Bess Meredyth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi ranks 339. Before him are Charles Korvin, José Bustamante, August Hellemans, Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, Jules Roy, and Sheldon Leonard. After him are Eduardo Reyes Ortiz, Hugo Strauß, Mirdza Ķempe, John Anderson, László Rajcsányi, and Célestin Delmer. Among people deceased in 1966, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi ranks 204. Before him are Tom Florie, Wivi Lönn, Bernhard Zondek, Natalena Koroleva, Claire McDowell, and Steingrímur Steinþórsson. After him are Sophie Tucker, Néstor Guillén, Mir Sultan Khan, Robert Keith, Manuel María Ponce Brousset, and Mina Loy.

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In India

Among people born in India, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi ranks 758 out of 1,861. Before him are Nambi Narayanan (1941), A. R. Rahman (1966), Kirron Kher (1955), Satish Kumar (1936), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), and Sunil Gavaskar (1949). After him are Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Raj Reddy (1937), Reita Faria (1943), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Ruskin Bond (1934), and Nanda (1939).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi ranks 110. Before him are Shrilal Shukla (1925), Anita Desai (1937), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Javed Akhtar (1945), Nambi Narayanan (1941), and Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872). After him are Ruskin Bond (1934), Gurdial Singh (1933), Bano Qudsia (1928), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Vikram Seth (1952), and Varsha Adalja (1940).

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