I received around half a dozen enquiries from the GATE qualifiers this time and last time, on how good/bad the MTech CSE course at NIT Calicut is. That prompted me to writing a blog on that, so that people can find answers to their queries on their own. Internally, Dept. of CSE is known as […]
Bothaiyanaar’s Alternative to Pythagorean Theorem Related post: https://taaism.com/an-alternative-to-the-pythagorian-theorem-by-a-keralite-mathematics-teacher It was quite accidentally, when reading about Pythagorean theorem, that I stumbled upon this amazingly simpler theorem which stands as an alternative to Pythagorean theorem. This was actually written by a Tamil poet – Bothaiyanaar – and is useful while calculating the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle. Note that […]
I rose to read Mathrubhumi daily today, only to amuse myself for a Keralite Mathematics teacher – Mr. Rahumathulla – has devised an alternative to the well-known Pythagorian Theorem. The original theorem is supposed to be so minimalistic and unimprovable that even the fifth graders in our schools are given lectures on the same. But, […]
There was a Google Hangout session conducted by the alumni of College of Engineering Chengannur (CEC) – my UG college, and its current students, on GRE and Higher Studies Abroad. After the session, it was planned to prepare a questionnaire and post on the web so that we would get suggestions from all the alumni, who […]
It was on a purely academic interest that I sent an RTI to the Dept. of Parliamentary Affairs, Govt. of India for details on the MPLADS fund utilization by Kerala MPs. The request was forwarded to Dept. of Statistics, and they gave me a reply. Adding it here. Actually, such stats are available on the […]