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Gauhati University to stage Ramanujan Katha to attract young students on July 17 2011
The Telegraph | Daulat Rahman | Guwahati, July 4:
Two plus two is four. Fine up to that, but beyond? Phobia of mathematics starts setting in, for many at least. It is this phobia that Gauhati University wants to exorcise and, for starters, it is turning to drama to send across the message that there is nothing to fear about mathematics.
The region’s premiere university will stage Ramanujan Katha on its campus on July 17 to attract young students to the dormant beauty of mathematics.
Khanindra Chandra Chowdhury, a professor of the mathematics department of Gauhati University, who has written the play and will direct it, too, told The Telegraph that the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was full of strange contrasts. He said Ramanujan had no formal training in mathematics but was a natural mathematical genius, in the class of Gauss and Euler. He said Ramanujan’s works would encourage those who otherwise see the devil in maths.
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