Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A Beautiful Mind, Part 2

This is about probably the breakthrough of this decade!

Just when you give up saying that, in all probability you cannot motivate yourself to blog again, something like this happens. A queer yet profound thing called Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman. Our definition of a reclusive genius.

I assumed after what happened, people would be lapping up news about our dear Grigori. Actually, not as many are. So, he is a Russian mathematician and what has he done? Oh nothing much, just solved one over-a-century-old problem in mathematics. He proved the PoincarĂ© conjecture, posed in 1904 by Henry PoincarĂ© (another insane polymath)  and regarded as one of the most important and difficult open problems in mathematics. The problem concerns the nature of three-dimensional space of finite extent and has eluded the best in business.

This is one of the seven million dollar Millennium Prize Problems posed by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. No, literally, anyone who solves it will get a million dollars, no less. Even you and me. These seven were selected from numerous questions posed by great mathematicians. Some of them are centuries old. This was the first one to be solved! The problems, if proved, will be instrumental in numerous aspects.

Stunning, you may say. Now what? Again, nothing alarming, he has just rejected the prize! And as I said,  its easily the breakthrough of the decade. In fact, he is already notorious for such deeds. He rejected the Fields' Medal, bestowed upon him in 2006. The Fields' Medal is the equivalent to a Nobel (or an Oscar, for our more colorful readers). He probably regarded his contemporaries incompetent to award him the medal.

And guess what, he is currently jobless. Living with his mother and sister in St. Petersburg. He left mathematics, left as in totally left, before he got the Fields' Medal. Something about the lack of ethics among mathematicians or the like hurt him. You can only imagine the kind of functioning his mind has.

And guess what? He proved it in 2002. Now that you got used to his type, he did not publish it. Why would I publish the proof of one of most important problems and gain credit? Money? Thats for mortals. He posted it on the internet! As a part of a more elaborate research which he was doing. Word spread around and it took a better part of the decade for people to verify that he actually did it!

Of the lot many who tried, a reporter got hold of him. All he got was, “I am picking mushrooms, you are disturbing me”. Talk about dialogues!!

This is just a very small teaser, what I wrote. Dig up the net, you'll find lots more. Still reading about him and the seven questions and other related curiosities.

Expecting a movie on the lines of Beautiful Mind?

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

A Pastime....

the A4 page was not enough space :(....have many complaints about it....but here it is......

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Goku/Piccolo/Vegeta.....DBZ only......

Goku again.....

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Give me any great pictures or suggestions guys :D

I can't comment on my own blog :( (net @ office) , so thanks in advance.....

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Back with a.......post, nothing else

Hello!

What?

Yeah, its been a long time since I saw my own blog. Whaddu they call it? eons, ages, eras (and all such exaggerations).

But in reality it has only been two months (two months and a day for those pestering pedants).

You might ask me what kept me. The thing is you move only as fast as your experiences. I was doing pretty much the same thing for quite this while, as a matter of fact I doing more of that thing now. So there was nothing to write. And thats what kept me. There, now you know.

Among my attempts to break the norm, apart from reading a book here and there and trying to practice my flute, there is nothing worth mentioning :P. And those worth mention needed time.

So I decided to be a fast bowler(at least try being one). So I went into one cricket academy here in Baroda and asked THE guy,

“Hello, whats the timing of this place?”

Guy: “Who are you? What do you want?”

'Pavan. I work here, I wanted to know the timings of the academy'

'How old is the kid?' (Slap!)

'Oh no no, am 22 yrs old'

'Woh theek hai? Par bachha kitne saal ka hai?' (!)

'Its for me, I want to play' (there's no kid :x)

He told the timings, which clashed perfectly with my office timings, like fate. I felt bad.

He then gave me a good hard look and then said to the another guy.

'Forget cricket. He are now in a job, concentrate on it. Cricket is only till college. I tell my students the same th..........' (Upon which I said a meek thank you and slipped off.)

People, bah.

Among other events, CAT this time was like..so many ppl!

If people are trying to hide or trying to tell something these few days, it most probably is their CAT percentile. I expected a rough figure, but every guy around has attempted it!

You know its like these attacks when people die. The official number is 10 and real no. is, well, 40 or so. I felt something like that. Every other guy springing across the street with percentiles (A rather morbid example, don't mind).

So, If anyone has any fascinating idea that does not involve much time, feels good to do and is legal, please ping me!


PS: In case anyone's wondering why the hell I wrote this, no real reason. Feels good see latest dates on the blog. I can pat my back later and say “March was not an orphan!”