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Moral of the story is….
How many times have we heard someone saying…’and the moral of the story is’. When I tell stories to children, I really don’t tell them the morals. Instead I ask them what did they like about the story,...
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Butterfly effect, and an accident – Part 4
Part 1 of the story is available here. Part 2 of the story is available here. Part 3 of the story is available here. 3AM A small village a few kms off the Chennai – Pondicherry ECR main road in the...
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Butterfly effect, and an accident – Part 7
Part 1 of the story is available here. Part 2 of the story is available here. Part 3 of the story is available here. Part 4 of the story is available here. Part 5 of the story is available here. Part 6...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 25,000 views in 2012....
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To pray or meditate?
Conventional wisdom tells us that we perceive this world through our senses. In other words, senses help us ‘make sense’ of this world. However, in reality, the very senses that help us perceive this...
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The cautious minds! – Maths Brains
Mathematicians are always known for their capability to reason for they overcome their other limitations through reasoning. During one of the talks in a recent symposium, we were told about Mandel...
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Nothing equals to zero?- Maths brains
This is from the school days of our very own Srinivasa Ramanujam. By the time he was in third grade his thinking was good enough to surprise and challenge his teachers. One day his maths teacher...
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Define a circle?
The daughter of a friend of mine went for school admissions and she was asked to define a circle. She is moving from Class 5 to Class 6. She drew a circle and explained a bit about what a circle is....
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Maths brains (II) – Naming uncertainty.
If you have studied even a page of information theory, with certainty I would bet that you have come across Shannon. The entire field is a result of his work. Uncertainty is omnipresent, yet it wasn’t...
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Math Brains-(3) Irrational Pythagoras
Pythagoras firmly believed that everything in the world can be represented by a number. The number system during his days didn’t include irrational numbers like square root of 2. Here goes a story...
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