. A scientist who worked in the fields of physics and astronomy, he developed an equation to determine the ionisation state of the various elements making up the star. A Lok Sabha MP, he also prepared the original plan for the Damodar Valley Project. Who is he?
Meghnad Saha
. The number 1729 is named after two mathematicians. One of them explained that it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. Who are the two scientists after which this number is named?
Srinivasa Ramanujan, G. H. Hardy
. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, an Indian scientist and statistician founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and for his contributions, he has been considered the father of modern statistics in India. He is best known for introducing a statistical measure in 1936. What is it called?
Mahalanobis distance