Anil Kumar Gain

Anil Kumar Gain
Born	(1919-02-01)1 February 1919 Lakkhi, Midnapur District, Bengal, British India (now in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India)[1]
Died	7 February 1978(1978-02-07) (aged 59) Kolkata, India
Nationality	Indian
Citizenship	India, United Kingdom
Alma mater	Rajabazar Science College (University of Calcutta) University of Cambridge
Known for	Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient Vidyasagar University
Awards	FRSS FCPS
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics and Statistics
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Calcutta Presidency College, Calcutta/Rajabazar Science College Indian Statistical Institute Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Doctoral advisor	Henry Ellis Daniels

Anil Kumar Gain FRSS FCPS (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient in the field of applied statistics, with his colleague Ronald Fisher. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Henry Ellis Daniels, who was the then President of the Royal Statistical Society. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Cambridge Philosophical Society.^[2]

Gain was the president of the statistics section of the Indian Science Congress Association, as well as the head of the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He later went on to found Vidyasagar University, naming it after the famous social reformer of the Bengali Renaissance, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.^[3]