Amusing Musings

Ahoy! What be happenin', Matey? Exactly 6 years ago, I remember penning a 'Return to India' diaries post. Today comes a 'Return to USA' post. Am nervous and excited today, and happy I will be once I settle down. After all I am finally going to be in a place where I feel I belong. No discussions, No debates. This is what I am and this is what I feel is good for me. My kid is excited, has questions and things she wants to do and plans of her own which is making it utmost motivating and exciting for me too. It so happens that she loves the cartoon "Jake and The Neverland Pirates" telecast in Disney kids channel. One day after watching back to back episodes she told me, "amma, when I grow up I wanna be a Pirate". I was totally flabbergasted, but I should be getting used to it by now. Something she really enjoys a day,  she is inspired and decides to become someone similar. Although she clarified, "A good pirat...

    The Man who new Infinity. What a gem of a movie. I fell in love, all over again, with Mathematics. I went right home after movie and looked up Newton's, Euler's, Jacobi, Hardy, Bernoulli... and the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan's biography and work. The movie is an extraordinary cinema for its sheer beauty in simplicity and authenticity in visuals, cinematography and intriguing story telling. Must watch and do not forget to take a bow! Maths lovers or not. Inspiration from this genius' life: Persistence, Following your calling, Will power and Assertiveness. Mathematics is both an art and science. My favorite quotes of S Ramanujan - Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was “dull” : No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways, the two ways being 13 + 123 and 93 + 103. "An equation to me is meaningless if it does not express a thought...