Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Ahitagni
Ahitagni

218 Followers

Home

About

Published in Cantor’s Paradise

·Pinned

Butterflies, Climate, Glass, and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

Despite our familiarity with order and organisation in our surroundings — the copy of ‘The Great Train Robbery’ lying on your table; the existence of NaCl in perfect crystalline structure in the salt cellar, and the predictable rising and setting of the sun — the universe is chaotic — the…

Nobel Prize

12 min read

Butterflies, Climate, Glass, and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
Butterflies, Climate, Glass, and the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize

12 min read


Apr 26, 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 friend to Ramanujan, mockingly blamed his “rather dull” taxi-cab number, which was 1729, for him being late at the port. Proving Littlewood true, yet again, who…

Mathematics

7 min read

The legend of the taxi-cab number and unknown facts about it.
The legend of the taxi-cab number and unknown facts about it.
Mathematics

7 min read


Apr 16, 2021

A series on world’s shortest mathematics papers, pt.2: Niven’s half page paper on the irrationality of π.

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? What seems even more astonishing is how such numbers are related to every circle, drawn on a plane, out there in the world! Yes, π…

Cantor

5 min read

A series on world’s shortest mathematics papers, pt.2:
A series on world’s shortest mathematics papers, pt.2:
Cantor

5 min read


Published in Cantor’s Paradise

·Mar 29, 2021

Archimedes’ Last Words and the History of π

π is probably the most famous or at least the number that is recognized by most out there. Almost all of us know that if we take a circle and divide its circumference with its diameter, we get π. It happens not just for one particular circle but all the…

Pi

8 min read

A brief history of the evolution of the ways of calculating π since 20,000 B.C.
A brief history of the evolution of the ways of calculating π since 20,000 B.C.
Pi

8 min read


Published in Geek Culture

·Mar 25, 2021

From 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 was discovered nearly 150 years ago! And today we are going to talk a little about Riemann’s paradox and the Riemann rearrangement…

Mathematics

4 min read

From the Simpsons to Riemann’s paradox: discussing Riemann’s rearrangement theorem.
From the Simpsons to Riemann’s paradox: discussing Riemann’s rearrangement theorem.
Mathematics

4 min read


Published in Cantor’s Paradise

·Mar 15, 2021

The World’s Shortest Mathematics Papers

Fermat’s Last Theorem and Euler’s Conjecture — This is one of the world’s shortest mathematics papers, dating back to 1966. Though it is really short, it packs quite a lot! Let’s start with Fermat’s Last Theorem, which was discovered by Fermat and later proved by Dr. Andrew Wiles in 1993. …

Mathematics

3 min read

The World’s Shortest Mathematics Papers: Fermat’s Last theorem and Euler’s Conjecture
The World’s Shortest Mathematics Papers: Fermat’s Last theorem and Euler’s Conjecture
Mathematics

3 min read


Feb 23, 2021

The mystery behind Ramanujan’s infinite series: Resolved.

Srinivas Iyengar Ramanujan was an Indian self taught genius, and was probably the only one of his kind. Scribbling, crossing, erasing, he spent most of his childhood in the alcoves of the Narasimha swamy Temple. His devotion to mathematics was such, it was often told that he loved numbers more…

Mathematics

6 min read

Ramanujan’s infinite series: Solved
Ramanujan’s infinite series: Solved
Mathematics

6 min read


Dec 31, 2020

How “hydrophobic water” and silicon oil are being used to study quantum mechanics

Water 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 phenomenon occurs all the time! From raindrops falling on puddles to the coffee that you might be drinking while you read this!

Physics

6 min read

How “hydrophobic water” and how silicon oil is being used to study quantum mechanics
How “hydrophobic water” and how silicon oil is being used to study quantum mechanics
Physics

6 min read


Published in Geek Culture

·Nov 6, 2020

Using refrigerator magnets and a bubble bath to understand Maxwell’s first law.

“I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns”-James Clerk Maxwell Electromagnetism, in fact, is a great gun. The inventions of the near past ranging from microwave ovens to mobile phones to bullet…

Electromagnetic

7 min read

USING REFRIGERATOR MAGNETS AND A BUBBLE BATH TO UNDERSTAND MAXWELL’S FIRST EQUATION!
USING REFRIGERATOR MAGNETS AND A BUBBLE BATH TO UNDERSTAND MAXWELL’S FIRST EQUATION!
Electromagnetic

7 min read

Ahitagni

Ahitagni

218 Followers

Hello there! I am Ahitagni and I love math, physics & cheese!

Following
  • Ethan Siegel

    Ethan Siegel

  • Areeba Merriam

    Areeba Merriam

  • Mara

    Mara

  • Jørgen Veisdal

    Jørgen Veisdal

  • Tom Ritchford

    Tom Ritchford

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech