Gonit Sora

Abel Prize

এবেল বঁটা আৰু বিজয়ীসকল

নীলছ হেনৰিক এবেল…গণিতৰ জগতখনৰ লগত জড়িত খুব কমসংখ্যকেহে হয়তো এই বিশ্ববিখ্যাত গণিতজ্ঞজনৰ বিষয়ে শুনা নাই। ইউৰোপ মাহাদেশৰ নৰৱে নামৰ সৰু দেশখনৰ ফিন্

algebra

Number Theory and Algebra Workshop at Tezpur University

Tezpur University, Assam is organising a workshop cum winter school on Number Theory and Algebra in December 2011. The expected speakers at the workshop are as follows: Prof. R. Balasubramanian (IMSc Chennai) Prof. R. Sujatha (UBC, Canada) Dr. U. K. Anandavardhanan (IIT Bombay) Prof. Kapil H. Paranjape (IISER Mohali) Prof.

Abel

Evariste Galois: The Man Who Never Lived

Evariste Galois, the famous French mathematician whose life is tragic and inspiring at the same time was born 200 years ago. Gonit Sora is celebrating his life by bringing forth a series of articles on the life and works of Galois. This is the first of the planned five articles

Dirac

The Quantum Reality!

There came into light the quantum era in the early 20th century bringing about a renaissance in the way of thought of the whole scientific community with the physicists being engulfed in an air of joy and uncertainty around the globe on seeing the unexpected projections of reality and truth

INMO

Indian National Mathematical Olympiad

The Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO) is a prestigious Olympiad aimed at highly motivated high school students and pre college students. It is conducted all over the country in various centres. In Assam, Gauhati University is a centre. Please click here or here to get more info about the INMO.

Olympiad

2011 Assam State Olympiad Question Papers

The Assam Academy of Mathematics (AAM) organized the 2011 State Mathematics Olympiad in numerous centres all over Assam. The question paper for Category III (Class IX and X) can be found here, and the question paper for Category IV (Class XI and XII) can be found here. Our editor Manjil

Bhatnagar

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar: A Pensive Pioneer of Indian Science and Technology

There are few people who with their creativity, hard work, perfection, progressive thinking, patriotism and scientific temperament have not only created a niche for themselves but also placed their country firmly on the international map. Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was one such pioneer and a towering personality who pushed for

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Algorithm: Types and Classification

The speed of an algorithm is measured in terms of number of basic operations it performs. Consider an algorithm that takes N as input and performs various operations. The corelation between number of operations performed and time taken to complete is as follows- ( consider N as 1,000  and speed

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind: Book Review

Author: Slyvia Nasar Publisher: Faber and Faber Price: Rs. 277.20 Rating: 4.5/5 How many of us, who are not practicing mathematicians or mathematics students know about any mathematician? The number would be very small. It has got nothing to do with the fact that mathematicians are not

Erdos

Ramanujan, Erdos, Feynman: The Eternal Golden Triad

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”  —Arthur Schopenhauer ‘Genius’ seems to be a very small word. We use it in many forms every day, but have we tried to analyze what it really means? Wikipedia says “Genius is

Algorithms

Algorithms: An Introduction

Algorithms are something which we both consciously and subconsciously use to do our daily tasks all the time. You want to tie your shoe lace? Follow the steps to create the complex knots. How about going to your friends house? Take the shortest path to save time. Want to hand

Biographies

Kameshwar Das: The Lotus in the Muddy Pond

Over a hundred years back, in the year 1901, a little boy took admission into a primary school located at Hagurigaon (Harihar Gaon) near Pathsala district in Assam. It would be wrong to say he took admission. Rather, a noble teacher of that school admitted him into the same. The

Careers

Mathematics as a Career Path

Mathematics as a career choice has been picking up among the students of India since the last couple of years. But sadly, very few students are aware fully of the scope they have to study in India. Most go for the local colleges and Universities in their neighbourhood. In this

Science

Science and the ‘AtharvaVeda’

Modern science as we see today is mostly centered on the developments of scientific knowledge in the twentieth century and the last part of nineteenth century. But if we have a deeper insight into the overall development of science then we find that it is a result of the accumulation

Biographies

Bhabha: The Man and the Physicist

Knowledge once given cannot be taken back- Bhabha   When speaking of the modern scientific and technological scenario of India, the name of Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha needs special mention.  Born on 30th October 1909 in Mumbai of Jehangir Hormnusji Bhabha and Meherbai , Dr. Bhabha, apart from being a brilliant physicist

Golden Ratio

Phi, the Golden Ratio

Gonit Sora has been able to obtain a copy of a talk on $$Phi$$ given by Mr. Arun Mahanta, Kalibaor College. Please click here to download.

Bruce C. Berndt

An Interview with Prof. Bruce C. Berndt

Bruce C. Berndt is an American mathematician working on analytic number theory. Prof. Berndt is at present, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His main research interest lies in the works of Ramanujan and he has taken the task of editing and collecting all the results of

Biography

Ramanujan

Every Indian, no matter whatever is his mathematical prowess or his profession knows about a certain gentleman born in Erode, Tamil Nadu on 22nd December 1887 – S. Ramanujan. The modern Indian tradition in mathematics got a jolting shift with the advent of the sheer genius of Ramanujan. No man ever

Beauty of Mathematics

The Ubiquitous Pi

Let’s begin by Quoting William Schaff: ‘probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number $$pi$$….’ Geometry and trigonometry For any circle with radius r and diameter d (= 2r), the circumference is πd and the area is πr2. Further, π

e

Napier's Constant "e" is Transcendental

This theorem was first proved by Hermite in 1873. The below proof is near the one given by Hurwitz. We at first derive a couple of auxiliary results. Let $$f(x)$$ be any polynomial of degree $$ mu$$ and $$ F(x)$$ the sum of its derivatives, $$displaystyle F(x) := f(x)

Brain Teasers

Some Mathematics Brain Teasers

1. The greatest number of Mondays that can occur in the first 45 days of a year is ___? Ans: 7 If the first day is a Monday, then every seventh day is also a Monday, and Monday falls on the following numbered days: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 36, and

Knuth Prize

Indian Mathematician wins prestigious Knuth Prize

In a great news for the Indian mathematical community, renowned mathematician and computer scientist Ravindran Kanan has been awarded the prestigious Knuth Prize for the year 2011. Ravi Kannan is currently a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group. He is also the first

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ৰামানুজন সংখ্যাৰ আঁৰত

কেম্ব্ৰিজ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ৰ গণিতৰ অধ্যাপক জি. এইচ. হাৰ্ডিয়ে উৎকণ্ঠা মিহলি মৰমিয়াল মাতেৰে সুধিলে: ‘কেনে আছা ?’ ‘ধন্যবাদ। ভালেই আছো।’ বিছনাত শুই

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গণিতৰ যাদু আৰু বেজবৰুৱা

খ্ৰীষ্টপূৰ্ব ২০০০ অব্দত বেবিলিয়ন আৰু মিচৰৰ সভ্যতা বিকাশৰ সময়ৰ পৰাই গণিতে বিভিন্ন পৰিৱৰ্তনৰ মাজেৰে, ন-ন সূত্ৰ, সমীকৰণৰ মাজেৰে পাৰ হৈ আহি আজিৰ

Königsberg Bridge Problem

Basic of Mathematical Modeling

Mathematical Model is the expression that we reflect a problem in mathematical language. Every individual literate or illiterate uses it. We all are applying it in our day-to-day life. If we know how to make a model to a situation it makes easy to tackle the situation. However, there is