S. N. Roy

Samarendra Nath Roy or S. N. Roy (Bangla: সমরেন্দ্র নাথ রায়) (born 1906 in Dhaka, East Bengal – 1964) was a Bengali Indian scientist, mathematician and an applied statistician. He was the first of two children of Kali Nath Roy and Suniti Bala Roy . His father, Kali Nath Roy was a freedom fighter and the Chief Editor of the newspaper TRIBUNE . Prof. Roy had a brilliant academic career. He secured first division in the Matriculation Examination in... more

Samarendra Nath Roy or S. N. Roy (Bangla: সমরেন্দ্র নাথ রায়) (born 1906 in Dhaka, East Bengal – 1964) was a Bengali Indian scientist, mathematician and an applied statistician. He was the first of two children of Kali Nath Roy and Suniti Bala Roy . His father, Kali Nath Roy was a freedom fighter and the Chief Editor of the newspaper TRIBUNE . Prof. Roy had a brilliant academic career. He secured first division in the Matriculation Examination in 1923. He came first in the Intermediate Science (Higher Secondary) Examinations in 1925. He also became first class first in both the B.Sc. Mathematics (Honours) from Presidency College, Kolkata, University of Calcutta in 1928 and the M.Sc. examinations from the University of Calcutta in 1931 . At that time Professor P. C. Mahalanobis was the director of the new (1931) Indian Statistical Institute. Several talented young scholars including J. M. Sengupta, H. C. Sinha, Raj Chandra Bose, S. N. Roy, K. R. Nair, K. Kishen and C. R. Rao, joined to... less