PinnedAhitagniinCantor’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…12 min read·Oct 7, 2021----
AhitagniThe 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…7 min read·Apr 26, 2021--2--2
AhitagniA 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…5 min read·Apr 16, 2021--1--1
AhitagniinCantor’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…8 min read·Mar 29, 2021--2--2
AhitagniinGeek 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…4 min read·Mar 25, 2021----
AhitagniinCantor’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…3 min read·Mar 15, 2021--4--4
AhitagniRamanujan’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…6 min read·Feb 23, 2021--1--1
AhitagniHow “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…6 min read·Dec 31, 2020----
AhitagniinGeek 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…7 min read·Nov 6, 2020----