Indian origin American Mathematician CR Rao win 2023 International Prize in Statistics: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, a prominent Indian-American mathematician and statistician, has been named for the 2023 International Prize in Statistics, the highest honor in the field. Rao, a 102-year-old mathematician, was chosen for his seminal work 75 years ago, in which he demonstrated three fundamental results that paved the way for modern statistics and provided statistical tools widely used in science.
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Rao will receive the $80,000 award in July 2023 at the International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The International Prize in Statistics is awarded biennially by a collaboration among five leading international statistics organisations, to recognise a major achievement by an individual or team in the statistics field, particularly an achievement of powerful and original ideas that have led to practical applications and breakthroughs in other disciplines.