PinnedPublished inCantor’s ParadiseButterflies, Climate, Glass, and the 2021 Nobel Prize in PhysicsDespite our familiarity with order and organisation in our surroundings — the copy of ‘The Great Train Robbery’ lying on your table; the…Oct 7, 2021Oct 7, 2021
The legend of the taxi-cab number and unknown facts about it.On the day of Ramanujan’s return back to India from Cambridge, Hardy, a rather famous mathematician of the 20th century and a mentor and…Apr 26, 20212Apr 26, 20212
A series on world’s shortest mathematics papers, pt.2:Irrational numbers are funny, the decimal digits go on and on but the entire number is always less than a fixed value, isn’t it awkward…Apr 16, 20211Apr 16, 20211
Published inCantor’s ParadiseA brief history of the evolution of the ways of calculating π since 20,000 B.C.π is probably the most famous or at least the number that is recognised by most out there! Almost all of us know that if we take a circle…Mar 29, 20212Mar 29, 20212
Published inGeek CultureFrom the Simpsons to Riemann’s paradox: discussing Riemann’s rearrangement theorem.What if I told you, you could subtract ∞ from ∞ to get π, i.e, ∞–∞ = π? Isn’t that absolutely absurd? This is the Riemann’s paradox which…Mar 25, 2021Mar 25, 2021
Published inCantor’s ParadiseThe World’s Shortest Mathematics Papers: Fermat’s Last theorem and Euler’s ConjectureThis is one of the worlds shortest mathematics papers, dating back to 1966. Though it is really short, it packs quite a lot! Let’s start…Mar 15, 20214Mar 15, 20214
Ramanujan’s infinite series: SolvedRamanujan’s infinite series, 1+2+3+..=-1/12 is based on a tremendous mathematical flaw. Find the actual solution based on real analysis…Feb 23, 20211Feb 23, 20211
How “hydrophobic water” and how silicon oil is being used to study quantum mechanicsWater drops floating on water may be the queeriest thing youve ever heard, but this isn’t as queer as it might sound, in fact this…Dec 31, 2020Dec 31, 2020
Published inGeek CultureUSING REFRIGERATOR MAGNETS AND A BUBBLE BATH TO UNDERSTAND MAXWELL’S FIRST EQUATION!Electromagnetism, in fact, is a great gun. The inventions of the near past ranging from microwave ovens to mobile phones to bullet trains…Nov 6, 2020Nov 6, 2020
