I do not like grading others, its time-consuming and unreasonable. It is not good to see anyone losing his confidence because of doing poorly in some examination. But I do not see any other way to make a merit list. Merit is very necessary evil for an institute to function. One has to discriminate in …
Enjoying fame and keeping an independent mind is not something one can expect from anyone. Fame is a double-edge sword. one feel tempted to do whatever one’s admirers want, and admirers are possessed with the one being admired. It creates a loop with ‘positive feedback’; and ‘positive feedback’ is known do nasty thing to a system, …
In this blog, we explore primitive mathematical properties of of love. Here we are only concerned with love between male and females. Among other things, we shall show that concept of ‘love triangle‘ is a myth unless one allows homosexuality.MATHEMATICAL PRELIMINARIESLet be the set of all humans. Let is the set of all lovable Males (definition?) and let be the …
When I posted mine and other teaching assistant’s mobile numbers on IITB Moodle and mentioned that my number has two prime factor, in case you wants to verify; and others should be right since I copy and pasted them, Srihari replied back, Sunny got 3 prime factors and you 2 as you said..while achin had …
The trouble with spending time on a ‘good university’ (or having educated parents) is that it might make you incapable of thinking about certain ideas. If you are a historian trained in Harvard University, than like New York Times, you may not be able to think beyond the nations of Atlantis. An economist, who have …