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D.D. Kosambi

Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Ramakrishna Ramaswamy

    1. School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

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  • Highlights the professional life and work of D. D. Kosambi— mathematician, statistician, historian and polymath
  • Presents a collection of published scientific papers as well as hitherto unpublished essays and reports by Kosambi
  • Supplies extracts from reviews of Kosambi’s mathematical work appeared in the Mathematical Reviews
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Essays on and by D.D. Kosambi

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Scholar in His Time

      • Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
      Pages 3-14

    3. Adventure into the Unknown

      • Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
      Pages 15-25

    4. On Statistics

      • Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
      Pages 27-34

    5. A Report to the JRD Tata Trust

      • Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
      Pages 35-39

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 41-45
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  4. Select Publications of D.D. Kosambi

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Precessions of an Elliptical Orbit

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 49-53

    3. On a Generalization of the Second Theorem of Bourbaki

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 55-57

    4. Parallelism and Path-Spaces

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 59-70

    5. Observations sur le mémoire précédent

      • par Élie Cartan
      Pages 71-74

    6. The Tensor Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 75-79

    7. A Statistical Study of the Weights of Old Indian Punch-Marked Coins

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 81-85

    8. A Bivariate Extension of Fisher’s Z-Test

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 87-91

    9. The Effect of Circulation Upon the Weight of Metal Currency

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 93-99

    10. A Test of Significance for Multiple Observations

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 101-107

    11. On Valid Tests of Linguistic Hypotheses

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 109-113

    12. Statistics in Function Space

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 115-123

    13. The Estimation of Map Distances from Recombination Values

      • D. D. Kosambi
      Pages 125-130
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About this book

This book fills an important gap in studies on D. D. Kosambi. For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. A number of his papers that are difficult to obtain in these areas are made available here. In addition, there are essays by Kosambi that have not been published earlier as well as some of his lesser known works. Each of the twenty four papers is prefaced by a commentary on the significance of the work, and where possible, extracts from technical reviews by other mathematicians.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    Ramakrishna Ramaswamy

About the editor

Ram Ramaswamy is professor in the School of Physical Sciences as well as in the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad during 2011–2015. Professor Ramaswamy’s research interests are in nonlinear science and systems and computational biology, and over the past decade, also in Kosambi’s life and works. He has edited a book of essays by D. D. Kosambi, Adventures Into the Unknown (Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon) that appeared earlier this year.

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