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Contributions of Indian Mathematicians to Calculus in the Field of Biology
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Which Indian mathematician made significant contributions to the field of biomathematics, particularly in the area of population growth modeling?
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P.C. Mahalanobis
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P.C. Mahalanobis was an Indian statistician and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of biomathematics, particularly in the area of population growth modeling. He developed the Mahalanobis distance, a measure of the distance between two populations, and the Mahalanobis matrix, a covariance matrix used in discriminant analysis.