Indian Statistical Institute
The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is an institute of statistics founded in 1931 by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis as part of the Presidency College in Calcutta (now Kolkata). In 1959 it became an institute of national importance by a resolution of the Indian Parliament. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MOSPI).
In addition to the main center in a suburb of Calcutta, there are centers in Delhi , Chennai , Bangalore and Tezpur (from 2011) as well as branches in various cities (such as Mumbai , Hyderabad ) that are used to implement projects and consultancy activities in quality control and operations research .
The institute is dedicated to research in statistics and related fields, for example mathematics, computer science and quantitative economics. It can also award degrees in all of these areas and is a state university. From the time of Mahalanobis they played an important role in the national five-year plans of India, for example, the second five-year plan was developed by Mahalanobis from 1956 to 1961.
Mahalanobis brought outstanding scientists such as Raj Chandra Bose to the institute . CR Rao was at the institute from 1944 to 1979 , other scientists were Dijen Kumar Ray-Chaudhuri , Anil Kumar Bhattacharya , Gopinath Kallianpur and Samarendra Nath Roy . Well-known mathematicians such as VS Varadarajan , R. Ranga Rao , KR Parthasarathy and SR Srinivasa Varadhan emerged from the mathematicians' training at the institute, which was not limited to statistics . The latter four studied there in the early 1960s. Visiting professors and scholars were there e.g. B. JBS Haldane (1957 to 1961), Andrei Kolmogorow (1962), Norbert Wiener , Ronald Fisher , Juri Linnik , Jerzy Neyman , Abraham Wald and Claude Berge .
The magazine "Sankhya" will be published.
