Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao 

• Rao is an Indian-American mathematician and statistician who has graduated with nearly 40 honorary degrees alongside numerous other awards and medals.
• He is known for this work on The Cramer-Rao Bound Theorem, Rao-Blackwell Theorem, estimation theory and multivariate analysis.
• Rao is author of more than a dozen books and he has published over 400 journal publications.
• American President George W Bush, honoured him with the National Medal of Science, the highest award in US in the scientific field, on 12 June 2002.

Text: [online] Available at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rao/ [Accessed 14 June 2021]

Image: [online] Available at: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/c-radhakrishna-rao-a-living-legend/article32560436.ece [Accessed 14 June 2021]

Author: Yamange Deshan Premasiri (2021) LJMU STudent

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