Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis,F.R.S.

Dr. Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobius, (1893 – 1972), the renowned Statistician who established the Statistical Laboratory in Kolkata, in December 1981 – which later became the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) – was a student at King’s college, Cambridge, from October 1913, for his Tripos in Mathematics and Physics. He became a good friend of Ramanujan, when he showed Ramanujan how to get under the tucked in blankets of his bed (and not under the top linen covering the bed, with his overcoat and shawl ! ) and sleep comfortably on cold, wintry nights.