Manjil Saikia - Gonit Sora (Page 3)

The Remarkable Sequence 1, 2, 7, 42, 429, ...: The story of Alternating Sign Matrices

The sequence in the title is given by the following ‘nice’ formula or, in product notation Here denotes the product . This formula was conjectured by Mills, Robbins and Rumsey to count what are called alternating sign matrices (ASMs), which is the subject of this post. An alternating sign matrix (ASM)

Andrew Wiles

Digital Communication and Scientific Progress: The Issues Underneath the Surface

The major scientific and mathematical [1] progresses that are made, are first reported in academic journals, and if something catchy and news-worthy appears then it captures the public imagination via numerous blogs, news articles and social media shares. But, the process of discovery or invention has many intermediate steps, the

Agora Financial

Learning to Build Your Wealth with Agora Financial

If you are an individual nearing retirement, and you have extra wealth on your side, then you know that dealing with your extra wealth can be kind of a headache. You know how to do your job, but you just don’t know how to handle the financial trends and

Abel Prize

Robert P. Langlands receives the 2018 Abel Prize

A press release from Oslo said, that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2018 to Robert P. Langlands of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA “for his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory.” Robert P. Langlands has been

$Wolf Foundation Prize for Mathematics in 2018 announced$

Alexander Bellinson

Wolf Foundation Prize for Mathematics in 2018 announced

A press release of The Wolf Foundation stated: The Wolf Foundation Prize for Mathematics in 2018 will be awarded to Professor Alexander Beilinson and Vladimir Drinfeld, both of the University of Chicago, for their ground-breaking work in algebraic geometry (a field that integrates abstract algebra with geometry), in mathematical physics

$Most Intriguing Facts About Science & Maths$

Facts about Earth

Most Intriguing Facts About Science & Maths

Undoubtedly science and maths are the most interesting yet difficult subjects. In case of these two subjects, students generally find difficulty in scoring good marks and understanding the concepts as it requires high analytical skills. Hence, students find these subjects boring. However, there are several facts about science and maths

Lucas Lehmer test

Largest Known Prime Number has been updated

The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has announced recently that it has discovered a new prime number, which is also the largest known prime number right now. The number is , which has 23,249,425 digits, and was discovered in December 2017. This number is nearly one million digits

National Mathematics Day

National Mathematics Day in India: Challenges, Delivery and Roadmap

In 2012, the then Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh declared it to be the National Year of Mathematics and every year December 22nd, the birthday of the Indian mathematical genius S. Ramanujan to be celebrated as National Mathematics Day in India. It has been now 5 years since the

Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Is the world on the brink of a computing revolution? – Quantum computing at the 5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum

[Press Release] Panel of experts will address the practical applications of quantum computing and what could impede its development. Rapid development in quantum computing over the past few years has brought it from an exotic theoretical possibility to a technology with tangible prototypes. Its ultimate potential is hard to assess,

$Wonders of The Pigeonhole Principle$

combinatorics

Wonders of The Pigeonhole Principle

The Department of Mathematics, NIT Silchar organized a one week workshop on “Innovative and contemporary teachers’ training in Mathematics” (ICTM 2017) from 14th – 18th August 2017. The workshop was coordinated by Dr. Kedar Nath Das, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, NIT Silchar. The workshop was successfully conducted with experienced resource

Abel Prize

MAINS Established in Heidelberg

Press release Mathematics Informatics Station – MAINS established! The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation presents the exhibitions “Experiencing Mathematics” and “Masters of Abstraction” in its new residence. As of now, visitors of MAINS in Heidelberg are able to experience how exciting mathematics and computer science can be and which roles they play

ACM

Sir Tim Berners-Lee awarded the ACM A. M. Turing Award for 2016

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, professor at MIT and the University of Oxford has been awarded the 2016 ACM A. M. Turing Award for the year 2016. The citation for Sir Berners-Lee reads: For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web

ARPANET

Interview with Vint Cerf, VP at Google

Vinton Gray Cerf is an American computer scientist who is considered one of the fathers of the Internet. Along with Bob Kahn, he co-invented the TCP/IP which makes everything on the internet work. At present, he is a Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Among his many

Gyanome

Mathematical Legacy of S. Ramanujan: V. Kumar Murty

Gyanome Foundation did a conversation with Prof. V. Kuamr Murty on the occasion of S. Ramanujan’s birth anniversary on 22nd December, 2016. The video is shared below. Prof. Murty speaks about Ramanujan, his life and his work in this video.

139

Carnival of Mathematics 139

Hello! We are pleased to present before you the 139th Carnival of Mathematics, a round up of a month’s interesting stuff from the blog-sphere. The last carnival was hosted by Yen Duong at Baking and Math. Before we get into the stuff that people submitted for this carnival, let

Amir Aczel

Book Review: My Search for Ramanujan

Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel’s book ‘My Search for Ramanujan: How I learned to Count’ is a memoir of Ken Ono’s mathematical journey. It is not an autobiography in the conventional sense, it is like a much needed desire to write about one’s life fulfilled. Ken

$2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize announced$

Analytic Number Theory

2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize announced

The 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was announced recently, this year the prize was awarded jointly to Kaisa Matomaki (University of Turku, Finland) and Maksym Radziwill (McGill University, Canada and Rutgers University, the US) for their “deep and far reaching contributions to several important problems in diverse areas of number theory

$Amalendu Krishna and Naveen Garg awarded the 2016 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Mathematical Sciences$

Amalendu Krishna

Amalendu Krishna and Naveen Garg awarded the 2016 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Mathematical Sciences

The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology is India’s highest prize for excellence in science, mathematics and technology. The prize is given every year in seven categories to outstanding people in the fields of mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, earth, atmospheric, ocean science, and medical sciences. The

Abel Prize

Some Beautiful Minds: 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2016

This week (17 Sep, 2016 to 23 Sep, 2016), the German city of Heidelberg will be host to over 20 extraordinary minds as the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is under way and we shall be reporting on the events of the HLF as it progresses. The HLF is modelled

Dev Patel

The Man Who Knew Infinity: Movie Review

It is very difficult to write an objective review when the subject is a movie based on the biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Nonetheless, I shall try to give an overview of what the movie has to offer. This is a good movie; it is not the best movie based on

IMO

Shortlisted Problems of the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an yearly competition for pre-college students, held every year in a different country. The shortlisted problems of the previous year’s IMO is released with the IMO problems of the current year. The 56th IMO was held in Thailand last year (2015). We give

$Mathematics Brochure 2016-17$

Ambat Vijaykumar

Mathematics Brochure 2016-17

Professor Ambat Vijaykumar of CUSAT, Cochin releases a yearly brochure about information on mathematics that is useful to students and teachers in India alike. The 2016-17 version of the brochure can be found below. [pdf-embedder url=”/content/images/wordpress/2016/08/Mathematics_Information_Brochure_2016-1.pdf” title=”Mathematics_Information_Brochure_

Arkady Vainshtein

2016 Dirac Medal and Prize awarded to Nathan Seiberg, Mikhail Shifman and Arkady Vainshtein

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) at Trieste, Italy awards the prestigious Dirac Medal and Prize every year. This year, it was awarded to Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota) and Arkady Vainshtein (University of Minnesota) for their important contributions to

Fernando R. Villegas

A talk on Impartial Games by Fernando R. Villegas

The Mathematics Section of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste (Italy) organizes a Basic Notions Seminar, every month to introduce a different mathematical concept for beginners. In this talk, Prof. Fernando R. Villegas explains some interesting impartial mathematical games and more. Featured Image Courtesy: Shutterstock

Apostolos Doxiadis

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: Book Review

Apostolos Doxiadis’ novel ‘Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture’ has been in my to-read list for a long time. Recently, I had the pleasure of reading this short novel based on Goldbach’s conjecture, which states that every even number greater than 2 can be represented as a sum of