The coolest reference on Hardy's reaction to Ramanujan's initial letter is seen in a letter that was sent by Bertrand Russell to an acquaintance. It goes something like:
"Saw Littlewood and Hardy in a considerable state of excitement. They claim to have discovered a second Newton, a Hindu clerk working in Madras for 20 pounds a year...It's all secret now, of course. I feel excited to know this"
From: Ramanujan: Letters and Commenary
Bruce C. Berndt and Robert L. Rankin.
American Mathematical Society-London Mathematical Society.
Good points. Before the current Chinese Leap, there was the great leap forward. 13 million people died. On the other hand, India has never had a famine or a similar holocaust on a "genocide" scale for quite some time now.
A lumbering democracy is much preferrable to a draconian system which can take drastic steps in any direction. The key is debate. It takes time. I want to be able to live in a livable country, not necessarily in a superpower.
And did you overlook the small fact that Iran is an oil-rich country?
In the absence of any corrective measures, I am sure even India can be like China. It has been acquiring a steady 6-7% growth rate for the past 5 years. That may not sound impressive next to China, but it is impressive when you consider that it is the *consensus* growth rate - not the huge urban-rural divide that China touts as progress.
As a case in point, In Andhra Pradesh, the previous Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu transformed Hyderabad from nowhere to one of the centres of the tech glitz in India. Meanwhile, in the villages, Andhra farmers were in miserable condition - 3000 farmers committed suicide in the past four years. The farmers never forgave; Come election time, they did not forget to cast their vote. Out went Chandrababu. It was beautiful to see democracy triumph over J.P. Morgan. The same thing happened in the neigbouring Bangalore.
There cannot be glitzy progress ignoring 75% of the people.
Of course, this means that in the eyes of the financial analysts, India is not as lucrative as China. But, I am proud of the progress that my country is making. At least, we don't have to sweep unpleasant facts under the carpet.
The concept "Five Senses" is present not just in Greek philosophy. The enumerative school of the Indian philosophy (Sankhya) in particular, talks about the five senses of knowledge and five senses of action - ten senses - but the five fundamental senses of knowledge are the same as in Greek philosophy.
Assuming this is correct, the BBC journalist seems to have taken an off-hand comment and put it into an unreleated and meaningless context.
Perhaps. But "Earth" seems much more immediate than "any planets within a few light years of it". Just like in "Earthly" disasters, irrespective of the fact that 200,000 people died, people are much more shocked when they think that ~300 of their countrymen are missing. In the words of Ursula K Le Guin, this is "making a molehill out of a mountain.".
Reminds me of Doug Adams' prediction in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy, about thought and motion controlled radio controls, so that eventually you have to sit irritatingly still and listen intently to the radio, otherwise the channels will switch...
Not to mention interface design. Ad hoc designs could be enormously good - like Winamp - or miserable - any of GIMP, the clipboard in X, the interface specifications for internationalization.
In spite of drives towards a uniform consistent design, the OSS commmunity still has a long way to go in terms of interface design, which is the defining factor in acceptance of packages like ERP. In "The Art of Computer Programming", Knuth makes note that programmers hate I/O programming.
After nearly 35 years, it is still so. OSS remains an extreme case-in-point.
It seems that Google is seen as a hacker-friendly company; it might have been so in the past, but I see no reason why it would not become a Microsoft of the future. It seems that as soon as stockholders are involved, the only way out is a mindless expansion spree.
On the other hand, as long as the Web is not Google's exclusive property (it seems so for the moment, but it might not last.), the free access portals might still triumph just because $20 per month is quite high for an access fee, for many parts of the world.
I do not say that Dawkins postures about Evolutionary Biology. He is one of the cleanest expositors of the topic. I personally enjoy his writings very much - especially his (fresh) emphasis on sexual selection which most (evolutionary) biologists think unimportant.
What I object to is that is his posturing about the arts and religion: just because he is a scientist, he does not have to be competent to pass judgements about everything in the universe. Shakespeare is not an idiot because he did not pass through the peer review process and got his works published without them.
Admittedly, the posturing of scientists with regard to the arts is a far less serious danger than the postmodernist literary evaluation of science.
What I hold true is that rigorous evaluation of the arts and literary evaluation of science are both ridiculous positions - and such offensive machismo is to be frowned upon. I believe that art, religion and science are all equally valid ways that man uses to understand his place in the universe. Slander of other disciplines takes us nowhere.
Social Text was right. It was worth my time, in that it demonstrated to me precisely why I'm going for a Ph.D. in a discipline where rigor and peer review actually mean something.
It is nice to know you work in such a beautiful field. For one, a flowery, literary field like condensed matter physics, scientific frauds will never be allowed to publish.
I do not know which is more insufferable, posturing by the artists or that of the loud-mouthed scientists like Richard Dawson.
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Only the civil code is non-uniform. This deals with marriage, divorce and inheritance, for instance.
A murder is a criminal case, and it is uniformly treated in the Indian Penal Code, irrespective of the usual divisions.
Hardy-Ramanujan partition function is a direct formula and gives an easy asymptotic estimate. The series form for this was proven by Hans Rademacher.
Partition function from Mathworld.
The coolest reference on Hardy's reaction to Ramanujan's initial letter is seen in a letter that was sent by Bertrand Russell to an acquaintance. It goes something like:
"Saw Littlewood and Hardy in a considerable state of excitement. They claim to have discovered a second Newton, a Hindu clerk working in Madras for 20 pounds a year...It's all secret now, of course. I feel excited to know this"
From: Ramanujan: Letters and Commenary
Bruce C. Berndt and Robert L. Rankin.
American Mathematical Society-London Mathematical Society.
Today is August 5, 2006, Today is August 5, 2006...
The other examples include Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Hmmm.
Carly Fiorina is the potential chief of the World Bank. So while engineers breathe a sigh of relief, the world at large cowers in fear at the next turn?
A lumbering democracy is much preferrable to a draconian system which can take drastic steps in any direction. The key is debate. It takes time. I want to be able to live in a livable country, not necessarily in a superpower.
And did you overlook the small fact that Iran is an oil-rich country?
who else could have such an id?
As a case in point, In Andhra Pradesh, the previous Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu transformed Hyderabad from nowhere to one of the centres of the tech glitz in India. Meanwhile, in the villages, Andhra farmers were in miserable condition - 3000 farmers committed suicide in the past four years. The farmers never forgave; Come election time, they did not forget to cast their vote. Out went Chandrababu. It was beautiful to see democracy triumph over J.P. Morgan. The same thing happened in the neigbouring Bangalore.
There cannot be glitzy progress ignoring 75% of the people.
Of course, this means that in the eyes of the financial analysts, India is not as lucrative as China. But, I am proud of the progress that my country is making. At least, we don't have to sweep unpleasant facts under the carpet.
Should it be allowed to become all-important?
The concept "Five Senses" is present not just in Greek philosophy. The enumerative school of the Indian philosophy (Sankhya) in particular, talks about the five senses of knowledge and five senses of action - ten senses - but the five fundamental senses of knowledge are the same as in Greek philosophy.
Perhaps. But "Earth" seems much more immediate than "any planets within a few light years of it". Just like in "Earthly" disasters, irrespective of the fact that 200,000 people died, people are much more shocked when they think that ~300 of their countrymen are missing. In the words of Ursula K Le Guin, this is "making a molehill out of a mountain.".
As if a million voices cried out in Agony
Reminds me of Doug Adams' prediction in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy, about thought and motion controlled radio controls, so that eventually you have to sit irritatingly still and listen intently to the radio, otherwise the channels will switch ...
My point was that what I/O programming was in the hoary past, it is GUI programming now. Programmers hate the part where data has to be presented.
In spite of drives towards a uniform consistent design, the OSS commmunity still has a long way to go in terms of interface design, which is the defining factor in acceptance of packages like ERP. In "The Art of Computer Programming", Knuth makes note that programmers hate I/O programming.
After nearly 35 years, it is still so. OSS remains an extreme case-in-point.
Control+Alt might work, though.
On the bright side, this might be a good challenge for Jon Lech Johansen.
Go Jon!
On the other hand, as long as the Web is not Google's exclusive property (it seems so for the moment, but it might not last.), the free access portals might still triumph just because $20 per month is quite high for an access fee, for many parts of the world.
In EDUCATION, he says:
I do not say that Dawkins postures about Evolutionary Biology. He is one of the cleanest expositors of the topic. I personally enjoy his writings very much - especially his (fresh) emphasis on sexual selection which most (evolutionary) biologists think unimportant.
What I object to is that is his posturing about the arts and religion: just because he is a scientist, he does not have to be competent to pass judgements about everything in the universe. Shakespeare is not an idiot because he did not pass through the peer review process and got his works published without them.
Admittedly, the posturing of scientists with regard to the arts is a far less serious danger than the postmodernist literary evaluation of science.
What I hold true is that rigorous evaluation of the arts and literary evaluation of science are both ridiculous positions - and such offensive machismo is to be frowned upon. I believe that art, religion and science are all equally valid ways that man uses to understand his place in the universe. Slander of other disciplines takes us nowhere.
However, every company should have just a single system.
Am I missing something?
And the details of the Jan Hendrik Schon.
It is nice to know you work in such a beautiful field. For one, a flowery, literary field like condensed matter physics, scientific frauds will never be allowed to publish.
I do not know which is more insufferable, posturing by the artists or that of the loud-mouthed scientists like Richard Dawson.
I don't catch the point here, but EDUSAT is an Indian Educational Satellite.
The first political assassination in Sri Lanka was that of Bandaranayake, and the assassin was Buddhist. No, not Buddhism either ...