Recreational mathematics is mathematics carried out for recreation (entertainment) rather than as a strictly research and application-based professional activity. By that definition, a big part of my interest in mathematics is recreational - because I don't use it for research or professional activity. I used to solve lot of puzzles since childhood and still love solving puzzles. One of interesting... Continue Reading →
This post is inspired by Ramana Sir's blog post with the same title - Letter Writing!I started typing my thoughts in his blog's comments section and thought why not write a hand-written note in letter format! So here it is...this also marks my last post with handwritten contents...those who follow my blog would have noticed... Continue Reading →
"Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones" - Ralph Keyes in "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When" I came across this line in the context of a famous quote: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” which is commonly attributed to Aristotle.... Continue Reading →
We often talk about work-life balance as a simple balance between the job/profession and life...like the one depicted on left. In reality, it's a complex balance of multiple small balances placed over each other, as shown on the right hand side. And as you can see, even a small feather or leaf (i.e. any trivial... Continue Reading →
Just came across a spectacular example of failure (?) of automation/artificial intelligence! These are some of the classic Hindi movie songs. The word Chhod (छोड - meaning Leave) has been masked blindly because it sounds like or is close to a cuss word. I thought it was only the text; but the word is beeped... Continue Reading →
I saw on Twitter this amazing color pencil drawing by a young Marathi artist called Shashikant Dhotre! Here is his website: https://shashikantdhotre.com/ Really awesome!
This Michael Jackson is too good and adorable! 🙂
From my friend in the Theoretical Physics Department
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