This article is written by Prof. S. D. Agashe. I greatly enjoyed it when I was a graduate student in department. I hope, some of you will enjoy reading this too. Euclidean geometry and the axiomatic method Euclid’s Elements constitutes the earliest extant substantial presentation of a body of material in the axiomatico-deductive form . …
What good is happiness if it cannot buy you money! – Attributed to Zsa Zsa Gabor In 2008, New Scientists, summarized the results of a survey covering 65 nations to show the largest proportion of happy people lived in, of all places, in Nigeria, followed by Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador and Puerto Rico. Last …
Following table is an outcome of notes taken for sole purpose of generalising Left and Right politics. Left politics is usually confused with ideology of some political parties. Such views of politics in popular media are confusing if not contradictory. The distinction made between Left and Right was of French origin where the Left is …
In 2010, Guardian published an article written by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. David Kessler. This article is no longer on Guardian since their copyright on it has expired. A simple googling will still reveal some other sources. SOME EXCERPTS: THE LIE For years I wondered why I was fat. I lost weight, …
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Aman [Brigadier Amanullah, secretary to Benazir Bhutto and former chief of Pakistan’s military intelligence in Sind, bordering India] noticed me looking at the painting and followed my gaze. … “A rocket ship heading to the moon?” I asked. “No,” he said. “A nuclear warhead heading to India.” I thought he was making a joke. … …
‘Game theory’ has it’s most unforgiving situation known as ‘grim’. If two parties A and B are dealing with each other under some norms and if one of them breaks these norms then other once can accept ‘grim’ i.e. B will never do business with A again or vice versa. This is very much established …
March 24, 2010. Who is middle class? Definitions are the most important thing to ponder when one tries to bring about an idea. India was able to define herself when she was liberated, thanks to a number of thoughtful scholars she produced. Pakistan was not fortunate enough. He never had a definition of his own. …
Have you heard a story of a spider which never lost hope and ultimately succeeds to climb up the roof of the cave. And a guy watching it ultimately learned the lesson that ‘never lose hope.’ As a little girl pointed out in her school, spider never lost hope because it had none. But that’s all right, …
Just try to google “Ideas are like” and wait for suggestions. They could be like rabbits, children, bullets. And if you include you-tube, tweeter and Facebook. Ideas could be anything, just like an idea. I’d like to add one more. Ideas are like electrons. Electrons are notorious for their random velocity with ‘zero’ displacement over …
Some views are so bad that they are not even wrong! Few scientists or great men (unless they were Indians) enjoyed success in their lifetime. Likes of Galois, Abel, Bool, Fourier and many more are not alive to see their work (mostly criticized in their time) influencing this world. One could live with that! What …