Cambridge High and Latin School

D. D. Kosambi

Printed in the 1923 yearbook as Damodar D. Kosambi

D. D. Kosambi (Indian polymath and Marxist historian) is in the 1923 yearbook of Cambridge High and Latin School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, printed there as Damodar D. Kosambi. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1923

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D. D. Kosambi Indian polymath and Marxist historian

Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi was an Indian polymath who studied mathematics, statistics, history, and genetics. He introduced the Kosambi map function in genetics and developed theorems for stochastic processes in statistics. He focused on ancient Indian history as a Marxist historian. He also worked in numismatics and compiled critical editions of ancient Sanskrit texts.

In the yearbook as: Damodar D. Kosambi, Cambridge High and Latin School, class of 1923

How we know this is the same person: Birth date printed in the yearbook (July 31, 1907) matches Wikidata exactly; Wikidata: educated at Cambridge High and Latin. Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

319 in the class of 1923 · 1 more named Kosambi

Full name: Damodar D. Kosambi
Known as: Baba
Born: July 31, 1907
Lived at: 360 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
School: Cambridge High and Latin School
Graduated: Class of 1923
Came from: Harvard Grammar School
Headed for: Harvard

Also searched as: Baba Kosambi; Damodar Kosambi; Kosambi, Damodar.

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Neighbours 89
Classmates 318
Same schools 155

What Damodar did at school

Swimming, 1923
Track, 1923
Winner Review Literary Contest, 1923

What the yearbook said

THE REST TO SOME FAINT MEANING MAKE But BABA NEVER DEVIATES TO SENSE

The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, but Baba never deviates to sense.

Also grew up on Harvard Street

The class of 1923

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Also came from Harvard Grammar School

Also headed for Harvard

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Cambridge High and Latin School yearbook, 1923, page 77. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cambridgehighlat1923unse).

Published 1923, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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