P.C. Mahalanobis is best known for his work in the field of statistics, but he performed work in other fields too. As an undergraduate at Presidency College in Calcutta, Mahalanobis studied physics. At the University of Cambridge—where Mahalanobis attended graduate school—he studied physics and mathematics. Just before his graduation, he took an interest in statistics. Mahalanobis applied his work in statistics to problems in several fields, including anthropology, meteorology, and biology.
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