Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi Mathematician Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi was an Indian mathematician, statistician, Marxist historian, and polymath who contributed to genetics by introducing Kosambis map function. Born 31 July 1907 Kosben, Portuguese India (present-day Goa, India) Died 29 June 1966 Pune, Maharashtra, India Occupation -Mathematician and Marxist historian