Kumble Subbaswamy (left), dean of COAS, presented IUB mathematician Madan Puri with a medal signifying Puri’s title as COAS Distinguished Research Scholar earlier this semester at a tribute dinner.
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IU Bloomington’s Madan Puri was once called “the Michael Jordan of statistics” by a fellow mathematician, and in recognition of his accomplishments, he has been awarded the title of Distinguished Research Scholar by the IU College of Arts and Sciences.
Puri as phenomenon translates through the sheer volume of his published work; his career has centered on such topics as non-parametric statistics, time series, splines, tests of normality, generalized inverses of matrices, stochastic processes, random sets, fuzzy sets and fuzzy measures.
And let the record books show: In 1997, Puri ranked fourth most prolific internationally for his writings in top statistical journals, according to the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada; at universities such as IU, which do not have separate departments of statistics, he ranked number one. Last year, in a compilation by the Institute of Scientific Information, he was among 231 mathematicians worldwide named for the sheer number of their article citings in all categories of mathematical inquiry.
International Science Publishers published a three-volume set titled Madan Lal Puri: Selected Collected Works. (The stacked books measure a half-foot tall and contain 2,303 pages.) His biography will appear in the forthcoming Oxford Dictionary of Statistics (University of Sussex, England) and a volume is planned next year in Puri’s honor by the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
Read more about Puri and “Quantifying uncertainties” at this HP archival Web site:
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/HomePages/021999/text/quantifying.htm
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