A polymath, he had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music
As a polyglot, Bose was well versed in several languages such as Bengali, English, French, German and Sanskrit. He could play the esraj as wellBose attended Hindu School in Calcutta, and later attended Presidency College, also in Calcutta, earning the highest marks at each institutionWith Meghnad Saha, Bose wrote the first book in English based on German and French translations of original papers on Einstein's special and general relativity in 1919. He is seen with Niels Bohr hereBose wrote a paper deriving Planck's quantum radiation law by using a novel way of counting states with identical particles. It was seminal in creating the very important field of quantum statisticsHe sent the article directly to Albert Einstein in Germany. Einstein translated it into German himself and submitted it on Bose's behalf to the prestigious Zeitschrift für PhysikAs a result of this recognition, Bose was able to work for two years in European X-ray and crystallography laboratories, during which he worked with Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, and EinsteinBose's interpretation is now called Bose–Einstein statistics. This result derived by Bose laid the foundation of quantum statisticsBeing Bengali, he devoted a lot of time to promoting Bengali as a teaching language, translating scientific papers into it, and promoting the development of the region