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"రాస్" అను పదం సంస్కృతంలోని "రస్" అనే పదం నుంచి వచ్చింది. రాస్ యొక్క మూలాలు ప్రాచీన కాలానికి చెందినవిగా గుర్తించవచ్చు. కృష్ణ భగవానుడు రాస లీల ప్రదర్శించాడు. (లీల అనగా దేవుడైన కృష్ణుడి యొక్క వినోదభరితమైన నాట్యం. "లీల" అనే పదం దేవుడు చేసే వాటిలో మనకు పూర్తిగా అర్ధం కాని వాటిని కూడా సూచిస్తుంది).
రోనాల్డ్ రాస్
During his active career Ross advocated the task of prevention of malaria in different countries. He carried out surveys and initiated schemes in many places, including West Africa, the Suez Canal zone, Greece, Mauritius, Cyprus, and in the areas affected by the First World War. He also initiated organizations, which have proved to be well established, for the prevention of malaria within the planting industries of India and Ceylon. He made many contributions to the epidemiology of malaria and to methods of its survey and assessment, but perhaps his greatest was the development of mathematical models for the study of its epidemiology, initiated in his report on Mauritius in 1908, elaborated in his Prevention of malaria in 1911 and further elaborated in a more generalized form in scientific papers published by the Royal Society in 1915 and 1916. These papers represented a profound mathematical interest which was not confined to epidemiology, but led him to make material contributions to both pure and applied mathematics.