Nehru asked Mahalanobis to think about how to plan an economy. The brilliant Mahalanobis succeeded in expressing the entire Indian economy in a single mathematical formula.

• 尼赫鲁要求马哈拉诺比斯考虑如何为经济编制计划。这位才华横溢的马哈拉诺比斯成功地将整个印度经济用一个数学公式表示出来。