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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 321,094 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi is the 5,819th most popular writer, the 757th most popular biography from India and the 110th most popular Indian Writer.

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Notable Works

Buddhalīlāsārasaṅgraha
Buddhists, Biography
On Gautama Buddha.
1922
Nivedana
Authors, Marathi, Biography, Marathi Authors
Autobiography of a Marathi author.
1924
Hindī sãskr̥ti āṇi ahĩsā
Hinduism, Ahiṃsā, Buddhism
On Indian civilization and nonviolence.
1935
Abhidharma
Abhidharma
1944
Bhagavāna Buddha
On life of Gautama Buddha.
1940
Bauddhasaṅghācā paricaya
Biography, Buddhist Monasticism and religious orders, Buddhist monks
Essence of Vinayapiṭaka and sketches of Buddhist monks, contemporary of Gautama Buddha.
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi ranks 5,819 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 757 out of 1,861. Before him are Sumitra Mahajan (1943), Nambi Narayanan (1941), A. R. Rahman (1966), Kirron Kher (1955), 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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