Gonit Sora

An Incredibly Short Tale About Human Imagination

By Dr Mridu Prabal Goswami (Indian Statistical Institute, North-East Centre, Tezpur) Author's Note: The views expressed in this piece are personal. The author is extremely thankful to Mousumi Kalita Sachdeva and Abinash Panda. Author's Preface: This piece is only a snapshot of the evolution and the articulation of human imagination

Boltzmann equation

An Interview with Cedric Villani: 2010 Fields Medalist

Cédric Villani is a French mathematician, who was awarded the Fields Medal (considered to be the highest prize in mathematics) in 2010. He is currently Director of Institut Henri Poincaré and also sits in the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, representing Essonne’s 5th constituency. He

Olympiad

Few Problems - 3

1. Let be an acute angled triangle such that . Let be a point on such that . Let be an internal point of the segment . Prove that if and only if . 2. Show that there are infinitely many positive integers such that . 3. Show that is always composite for all natural

2017 Abel Prize

Yves Meyer receives the 2017 Abel Prize

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2017 to Yves Meyer (77) of the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, France “for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets”. The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,

Olympiad

Few Problems - 2

1. For which , does hold? 2. For a polynomial with integral coefficients, i.e. for all with , if where , are coprime integers with then show that: i. ii. 3. Let be a triangle with side-lengths , , corresponding to sides , and respectively and let , and be the lengths of the medians from

Olympiad

Few Problems - 1

1. Given a straight line and points and on the same side of it find the shortest path from to which touches . 2. Given a function such that Show that for all . Thus, infer that for such a function knowing its value at one non-zero point is sufficient for finding

CCSU

A National Conference on Mathematics and its Applications at Cotton College State University

A national conference on Mathematics and its applications from October 21 to October 22, 2016 is being jointly organised by the Dept. of Mathematics, Cotton College State University and the Dept. of Mathematics, Cotton College. Below we give the details of the conference.   The speakers for this conference will be:

Data Analytics

Business Analytics training in Bangalore

Excelr bids 50 hours tutorial room teaching on Data Scientist / Business Analytics / Data Analytics. They are regarded as one of the finest training institutions on Business Analytics at Bangalore. They bear a tagline: “Faculty and massive course program are our dissimilitude”. The teaching is led by graduates of premier institutes,

application

What Is Applications Engineering All About?

Applications engineering is one of the hottest trends in the IT industry. The role of an applications engineer is to create the design and application of different technology products that are related to different aspects of computing. To achieve all of this, an applications engineer has to collaborate with his

Breakthrough Prizes

IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowship in Mathematics

Thanks to a generous donation by the winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics – Ian Agol, Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Jacob Lurie, Terence Tao and Richard Taylor– the International Mathematical Union, with the assistance of FIMU and TWAS is launching a fellowship program to support postgraduate studies, in a developing

academic administration

An Interview with the Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur University, Prof. Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri

Professor Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri is a renowned name in the nation’s academia, for his significant and practical contributions towards inorganic chemistry. He got his PhD from IITKgp in 1973 and went to Germany for further research. After coming back from Germany, he started working in North Eastern Hill University

Quantum Immortality

Many-world Interpretation: Quantum Suicide and Quantum Immortality

The mesmerizing world of quantum physics, as described by Erwin Schrödinger himself, is “quite ridiculous.” There has always been an argument regarding the quantum states in which a quantum particle exists. This argument led to the formulation of two interpretations in quantum physics- the Copenhagen interpretation and the Many-World interpretation.

IIT Guwahati

An Interview with Professor Dhirendra Nath Burhagohain, Founder Director of IIT Guwahati

Interviewer – Dr. Stuti Ranjit Konwar Translated into English by Ms. Manoshi Goswami (This interview was published in the Assamese Daily, Niyomiya Barta, on 29th Oct and 2nd November, 2015 in two parts. We offer our heartfelt gratitude to the interviewer as well as to Mr. Phanindra Kumar Dev Choudhury, Chief

Linguitics

A Linguistics Challenge

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C. R. Pranesachar

Problem Set prepared by C. R. Pranesachar for Olympiad Orientation Programme-2014, North-East Regions

1) Let P be an interior point of an equilateral triangle ABC. (a) Calculate the side of the triangle if the distances of P from the sides BC, CA, AB are given as x, y, z. (b) Calculate the side of the triangle if the distances of P from the

algebra

Problem Set prepared by B. J. Venkatachala for Olympiad Orientation Programme-2014, North-East Regions

1) A triangle has sides 13, 20, 21. Is there an altitude having integral length?   2) What is the minimum number of years needed for the total number of months in them is a number containing only the digits 0 and 1?   3) Suppose a, b are integers such that

chaoyang lu

Teleportation

Image Credits An American writer Charles Fort first used the word teleportation in his 1931 book, ‘Lo!’. He used it to indicate the sudden and mysterious disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which may or may not be connected. His coinage was based on the literary license which he had as

Gravitation

Gravitation - A Mystery?

We all have an intuitive understanding about the force that makes apples fall. This is partly due to the work done by Isaac Newton, who contrary to the opinion of school kids did not “discover” gravity. Newton instead for the first time proposed that the force of gravitation existed between

THE DARK SIDE OF PHYSICS & THE NEW SPRING THEORY

Yes, Physics too has a dark side to it! The dark side of Physics refers to the two most popular yet unexplainable terms in Physics- dark matter and dark energy. According to researchers, 95.4% of our universe is made up of dark energy and dark matter, and what makes

combinatorics

Simple concepts Tough problems

References: 1. Mathematical Circles (Russian Experience); Dmitri Fomin, Sergey Genkin, Ilia Itenberg; Translated from Russian by Mark Saul; Volume 7; American Mathematical Society; ISBN 0-8218-0430-8. Well … please don’t worry !! You are not in the end of the article !! It’s in fact the beginning … I know it’s crazy

2015 Abel Prize

John Nash and Louis Nirenberg share 2015 Abel Prize

In a press release, earlier today the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters have decided to award the 2015 Abel Prize to John Forbes Nash, Jr. and Louis Nirenberg “for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis.”   The full

14 March

Pi Day: Once-in-a-century Celebration (2015)

Exactly a month after the Valentine’s Day, there comes an event which is not less than Valentine’s Day for many people around the world. Those are the math-lovers. Very popularly known as the Pi Day, this day celebrates the mathematical constant . , an irrational number cannot be written as

Scientific Inquiry

The death of scientific inquiry

How many of us know that according to the Article 51A in the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution “It shall be the duty of every citizen of Indian to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of enquiry and reform.”? That means not only scientific thinking is essential in

14 March

The Pi Day of our lives

Pi Day Doodle by Google in 2010 As most of us know, March 14th every year is celebrated by mathematicians all over the world as Day. The reason for this is quite simple: March 14 is written as 3-14 in the American style of writing dates and as the value

Admissions

Chennai Mathematical Institute Admissions 2015

The Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) is one of India’s premier institute devoted to mathematics, computer science and theoretical physics. Find below detailed admission procedure for CMI. Also note that this year onwards there are two centres in Assam: Guwahati and Silchar. * Applications for August, 2015 are open. Look up