And the winner is .....

I was looking at the stats for my website visitors. Over a period of one month, I got 262 visitors who were Linux users. I had 131 WinXP users (the nearest runner up), just 50 % of Linux score.

Who says MS-Windows is a popular OS ?

partha

Mathematical writing

"Mathematical Writing" by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts

This is a report based on a course given at Stanford University in 1987.

I stumbled on a pdf version of this classic by D E Knuth. Gives you many rules of clean and clear mathematical writing. It borrows many ideas from the classic book of style by Struk and White. This is a must-read for all those who (like me) use maths for making a living. Wish my maths teachers had read this book before teaching me maths.

partha

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Mathematics made difficult ..... and fun

Mathematics made difficult
[by] Carl E. Linderholm. (207 pages | 1972 | ISBN: 0529045524 | DJVU/PDF )

This is a remarkable book with a remarkably innovative title. It is usual for books to claim that they make a given subject simple, or uncomplicated (whereas, in fact, they complicate the subject beyond any hope). This book starts with an unusual claim. It may or may not have made maths difficult, but it certainly makes maths real fun to explore and discover. Each problem, and the discussion that follows, is a bundle of very hilarious and often subtle humour. The author however, manages to retain the rigour and precision of maths.

Thankfully, this book is available for download from the w-w-web. There are actually many sources from where you can download.

Download the book, read it, enjoy the wisdom, and become a better maths teacher.

partha

One more Indian does it !

Same old story. Just a different person. Prof E C G Sudarshan, a world famous physicist, originally from Kerala, India, now in the USofA (where else ?), wins a major award -- the Dirac Medal, for his contributions to theoretical physics. He shares this honour with another physicist (Nicola Cabibo).

Sir, congrats. We are proud of you.

partha

Disaster recovery

Genius is not about how you avoid disasters, it is about how you recover from them. I came to understand this saying, only after I found a way out of the recent crisis about "the Professor's website" at webs.com. I found a rather clever way to work around the gagging of this website.

You can now visit "the Professor's website at ::
http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha

Reminds me of a nightmarish crisis a few weeks ago when Google decided to block my google account. I felt devstated, but I managed to recover.

These things happen when we look for free services.

Amen,

partha

What is my IP ? And what is an IP ?

Found yet another interesting and useful site. this site tells you your IP, and gives a whole lot of info related to IP and traffic in the Internet.

Try the site::
http://www.whatismyip.com/

and follow the various links.

partha

The Prof' site is still down...bloccked..shot dead

But there is a work around. Try::

http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/index.htm

Links may not work, if they point to profpartha.webs.com/somefile.htm

Sorry for this nuisance. Hope the hosts solve the problem soon.

partha

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http://www.profpartha.webs.com/ is down -- why ?

Not just me, everyone from India is facing this problem. The web host says that the ISP (BSNL ?) or someone enroute is blocking all access from India. Why ? How can we remedy this ?

Read the full report at ::
http://getsatisfaction.com/webs/topics/india_problems_seeing_your_site_read_this_first?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_webs


partha

http://www.profpartha.webs.com/ is down

My website at http://www.profpartha.webs.com/
seems to be down for the past few days. Please bear with me till it comes back online.

partha

Recognising a rare breed.....

It is a surprising fact of life that there are very few women mathematicians. In a search I did some years ago (pre- W-w-web days), I had to spend a lot of effort and ended up locating just two of them. Now, I presume, it would be easier to locate women who can compare or excel men in mathematics. Here is an opportunity to meet some of them ::
http://www.iitk.ac.in/icwm2010/index.html

You will of course have to come to Hyderabad, my city, if you want to meet them. You can be my guest.


partha