I found good time to devote to ramanujam's biography " The man who knew infinity" by r.kanigel. Thanks to my odd shift timing, it begins at 3 am and ends at 12 noon, i spend sometime in the evening reading.
The book is a well written one. The author expounds on evry details and brings every detail to life. I liked the way he described the way southindian meals is served on a plantain leaf.The Author has very clear intentions . His goal is to make a westerner appreciate the south indian way of life ; a modern indian to appreciate the conditions pre-independence; a non mathematecian to appreciate the nuances of maths.....
The book is a well written one. The author expounds on evry details and brings every detail to life. I liked the way he described the way southindian meals is served on a plantain leaf.The Author has very clear intentions . His goal is to make a westerner appreciate the south indian way of life ; a modern indian to appreciate the conditions pre-independence; a non mathematecian to appreciate the nuances of maths.....
So very well written that i wanted to find out more abt kanigel. In the process i found out that find out that there is a faculty in MIT devoted to develop science writers and kanigel is a part of this faculty.
about science writing.... "Science writing means writing about science and technology forgeneral readers. It appears in ordinary newsstand magazines and newspapers, in popular books, on the walls of museums, on television or radio programs. It grapples with genes, fractals, synapses, and quarks, but always with grace and style. Its practitioners worry as much about how to tell the story of science as the science itself—and yet, in maddening paradox, as much about the science as its telling. Science writing tackles big ideas, important issues. It's ambitious, creative, hard to do—harder yet to do well...................The need for men and women who can lucidly interpret and explain science to the wider public has never been greater. Modern technological society leaves a widening gap between citizens and wielders of scientific expertise; graduates of our science writing program will help narrow that gap. The values and practices of science and technology pervade modern life; our graduates will probe and knowledgeably question them."
( quote frm http://web.mit.edu/sciwrite/about.html )"
The book has made me appreciate better how madras has evolved over the ages.. i could relate to some of the places that i have passed by earlier attaching more significance to them now that i know ramanujam had walked those places.. ( pycrofts rd, saiva mudali st., triplicane summer house... etc.)
Explanations on infinite series has renewed my interest in numbers and logic. which inturn has led me to practise some qsns in cat4maba.com .( oh! this now drags me on to the next post)
about science writing.... "Science writing means writing about science and technology forgeneral readers. It appears in ordinary newsstand magazines and newspapers, in popular books, on the walls of museums, on television or radio programs. It grapples with genes, fractals, synapses, and quarks, but always with grace and style. Its practitioners worry as much about how to tell the story of science as the science itself—and yet, in maddening paradox, as much about the science as its telling. Science writing tackles big ideas, important issues. It's ambitious, creative, hard to do—harder yet to do well...................The need for men and women who can lucidly interpret and explain science to the wider public has never been greater. Modern technological society leaves a widening gap between citizens and wielders of scientific expertise; graduates of our science writing program will help narrow that gap. The values and practices of science and technology pervade modern life; our graduates will probe and knowledgeably question them."
( quote frm http://web.mit.edu/sciwrite/about.html )"
The book has made me appreciate better how madras has evolved over the ages.. i could relate to some of the places that i have passed by earlier attaching more significance to them now that i know ramanujam had walked those places.. ( pycrofts rd, saiva mudali st., triplicane summer house... etc.)
Explanations on infinite series has renewed my interest in numbers and logic. which inturn has led me to practise some qsns in cat4maba.com .( oh! this now drags me on to the next post)
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