Believing the propaganda regarding trouble in Iran, I nearly postponed my visit there. However, the situation was entirely peaceful, even at Khorramshahr, the border with Iraq. There was an invasion of dust, so all flights were cancelled, and we had to travel back to Tehran by road, a distance of…
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Though Stephen Hawking seems to have moved on from singularity theory in his latest book (http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/review_the-christian-propaganda-in-stephen-hawkings-work_1495047), there is one point about singularities which still needs to be clarified, since even the Large Hadronic Collider website confounds a singularity with a moment of creation. The question is what sort of singularity?…
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In an earlier blog I had pointed out how Robert Thomas the editor of an Oxford university journal, had adopted the extraordinary procedure of soliciting my book (Cultural Foundations of Mathematics) for review (on Christmas eve)! The reviewer, Jose Ferreiros clownishly proceded to review only 2 chapters of the book. Ferreiros lied that I…
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Dear Neeraj or Amartya (or whoever you are), You say >One of the chief reasons why most > of us are drawn to the notion of rigor today however, is not religious > but simply because of the elegant, sublime, almost surreal nature of > rigorous mathematical proofs. First,…
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Dear Mr Jain, For a masters level math student you seem quite enterprising. You ask: > Going through the material on your website, I was not able to decide > whether you envision a paradigm shift only in terms of the teaching of > calculus or a…
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Press reports http://ckraju.net/press/press.html (inaccurate, but some journalists made a good effort, and it is the feeling that counts). Videos of the TGA award ceremony at the University of Pécs, Hungary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-AuJy5tF8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93PVVX_TigU Acceptance speech for the TGA Gold Medal Award, 2010 Dignitaries on the dais, fellow Laureates, friends, I am indeed…
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When I visited Iran I was a bit apprehensive. All that I had read in the newspapers spelt trouble. The visa required a visit to the pathologist to ensure that I was free from various diseases. At the immigration check, the officer asked me the purpose of my visit. I told…
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Have been meaning to update this blog for a long time, but was too busy to do so. Sometime in early April I went to Ahmedabad to give a talk at the new IIT coming up there. One of those rare occasions when I missed my flight (even in Delhi,…
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Recently, someone who had invited me for a talk, wanted a bio, and sent in a short bio, evidently taken from the Wikipedia, which says “Much of Raju’s beliefs have been highly controversial, especially his claims that the philosophies that underlie subjects like time and mathematics are rooted in the…
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A more detailed account of calculus without limits for those with a background in formal maths is here in this series of six presentations at the maths department of the Universiti Sains Malaysia in early Feb. Got a little time off only on my last day in Penang, when I…