{"id":76,"date":"2012-05-06T00:18:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2012-05-06T00:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T18:48:48","slug":"national-year-of-mathematics-and-delayed-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"National year of mathematics and delayed monsoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But why a year on the Christian calendar? That\u00a0calendar embodies the European ignorance of elementary arithmetic and simple fractions (hence their persistent inability to determine Easter correctly\u00a0until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582 when they got the length of the year from Indian books).\u00a0Click the image for the text version. This newspaper has a circulation of 40 million.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhaskar.com\/article\/ABH-what-mathematics-of-the-party-3104218.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/press\/2012\/Bhaskar-article-13-April-print-version.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even so, the Gregorian calendar retains the unscientifc chaos about months. This is a disaster for Indian agriculture. (More details of the monsoon mess in my book <em>Cultural Foundations of Mathematics<\/em>, or an early preliminary article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianscience.org\/essays\/t_es_raju_monsoon.shtml\">http:\/\/www.indianscience.org\/essays\/t_es_raju_monsoon.shtml<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>More recent newspaper\u00a0clips on the &#8220;delayed monsoon&#8221; effect are at <a href=\"http:\/\/ckraju.net\/papers\/Monsoon-pages-from-calclnm.pdf\">http:\/\/ckraju.net\/papers\/Monsoon-pages-from-calclnm.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But why a year on the Christian calendar? That\u00a0calendar embodies the European ignorance of elementary arithmetic and simple fractions (hence their persistent inability to determine Easter correctly\u00a0until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582 when they got the length of the year from Indian books).\u00a0Click the image for the text version. This newspaper has a circulation of 40 million. Even so, the Gregorian calendar retains the unscientifc chaos about months. This is a disaster for Indian agriculture. (More details of the monsoon mess in my book Cultural Foundations of Mathematics, or an early preliminary article at http:\/\/www.indianscience.org\/essays\/t_es_raju_monsoon.shtml.) More recent newspaper\u00a0clips on the &#8220;delayed monsoon&#8221; effect are at http:\/\/ckraju.net\/papers\/Monsoon-pages-from-calclnm.pdf. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history-and-philosophy-of-mathematics","category-history-of-astronomy","category-science-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckraju.net\/wordpress_F\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}