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The Man Who Knew Infinity:
A Life of the Genius Ramanujanby Robert Kanigel Srinivas Ramanujan (1887-1920)In the past few decades, we have witnessed how Ramanujan’s contributions have made such a profound impact on various branches of mathematics. The book, “The man who knew infinity”, by Robert Kanigel reached out to the general public the world over by describing the fascinating…
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The Butterfly Effect
The “Butterfly Effect” is the propensity of a system to be sensitive to initial conditions.Such systems over time become unpredictable,this idea gave rise to the notion of a butterfly flapping it’s wings in one area of the world,causing a tornado or some such weather event to occur in another remote area of the world. Where…
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Plato’s Solid Definition of God?
Okay we assume that which we can see, head-brain-neurons- as a solid manifestation, but from where do these emerge? The fifth element, i.e., the quintessence, according to Plato was identified with the dodecahedron. He says simply “God used this solid for the whole universe, embriodering figures on it”. So,I suppose it’s a good thing that…
