Fun With Mathematics - Couverture rigide

Laxman Singh Kothari And Om Prakash

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 817309425X ISBN 13 : 9788173094255

Editeur : Sasta Sahitya Mandal Prakashan, 2009

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Language: English
Pages: 156 (40 B/W Illustrations and A CD Inside)

About the Author

Laxman Singh Kothari : Born on 13th April 1926 at Udaipur (Rajasthan).
Studied in Delhi University and did his Ph.D. from Bombay University in 1961.

He served with Atomic Energy Establishment Trombay from 1994 till 1961.
In 1962 he joined Delhi University as Reader in Physics and was appointed
Sir ShriRam Professor of Physics in 1963. He retired in 1991.

He was elected Fellow of the Indian National Scienge Academy in 1966.

His main research work was in the field of thermal neutron interation with
solids. He has published nearly 170 research papers and over 25 students
have worked with him for their Ph.D. degree. He has edited four books and
written 6 books with colleagues. His book Fun and Science at Home has
been translated into Hindi and Tamil.

Preface

"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with
the prosperity of the state" Napoleon Bonaparte.

"No other field can offer, to such an extent as mathematics, the joy of discovery,
which is perhaps the greatest human joy.I know a schoolchild who was twelve
years old when his first original mathematics result appeared in a mathematical
journal one not meant for schools. In another field, that would hardly be
conceivable" Rozsa Peter.

If we have to spend some time in Tamil Nadu or Bengal, we must learn Tamil
or Bengali to be able to freely communicate with the people there. Similarly, when
we arrive in this world we must learn mathematics, because this is the only language
Nature understands.

Like painting or writing poetry, mathematics is also a creative activity. Here
one mak