Sources of Inspiration - Nature & People in my Life - 3

Good Evening!!

It was a pleasant weekend. I was enjoying every moment of it. Watched a couple of movies, did some cooking, listenend to some new songs and lots and lots and lots of sleeep. This weekend was so far the best in U.S. I had planned to do some work on "Curvilinear Coordinate Systems", but restrained myself from doing so. I had spent this weekend with the constraints: minimum work, moderate entertainment and maximum possible sleeep. I want to end this section of blog along with this weekend , and start talking about "Functions & Life" tomorrow.

Everyone around me inspired me in one or another fashion. "Life is a school where everyone teaches the other are learns for himself; The moment you stop that is the moment from which you cease to exist". In other words, every incident in our lives teaches us something and we can also learn many things looking at others lives. The people I met, the friends I grew with, the books I read, the animals I observed, the lectures I heard, the food I ate and the games I played, had made me what I am today, and I owe them a lot.

"Nature" has a very strong influence on me. Looking at  a hill reminds me how strong my mind should be to endure the vacillations of life. Watching the birds fly together in the sky, reminds me that "Together Eachone Achieves More"(TEAM). Gazing at the ocean waves, I recognise that no matter how big a man grows, he can walk only on the ground. An eagle reminds me that there are people looking at me with such eyes and I should be very careful in all my actions. A street dog tells me that if I talk unnecessarily I would face the subsequent consequences. A rat tells me that I should always save for the future. An ant always reminds me how inefficient I am, and how hardwork would payoff. ( Note: Ants carry ten times their own weight. ) This list would go on forever, however, rather than reading this list, it would be more beneficial if you would experience it. I would recommend the following activity, which you can do in your "IB Time".

IB Time ( Idle Brain Time) is defined as "the time during which you are involved in an activity of any form(working/studying etc.), however, you are not willing to do anything and just want to pass the time by any unproductive activity like clicking refresh tab in your orkut/facebook profile, calling your friends and telling them that you are bored to death, thinking about the mistakes you made or lost oppurtunites in past and many such activities which just result in nothing except scrolling the time domain in universe".

Activity 1:

Open a note pad and start writing a list of all animals you know, their habits, features and compare them with that of humans'. This would help you understand the behaviour of nature, on which I would write later.

Just as a lion roar would control the entire forest, our motives control our entire lives. Hence it is very important to identify our motive in every action and verify it with our conscience.

With these words, I end this section. I thank everything around me for moulding me into what I am now. Whatever happens in life, it is very important to live, and this fact I understood from a best friend of mine who also helped me recognise the importance of working in the present, rather than brooding over the past (or) planning for the future. "If justice is done to the present work, it would automatically plan the future" is another fact learnt from the same friend. These lines had a very strong impact in my life, and I owe everything to that friend.

 Thats all from me in this section. Have a nice week ahead, and would see ya tomorrow. Its already 2100hrs and I shall retire to sleeep...

Let peace prevail in this world.

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Sun

Sources of Inspiration - Nature & People in my Life - 2

Good Morning!!

Last week was totally freezing. Temperatures were monotonically decreasing since december. Fortnight ago, there was change, which unfortunately turned out to be a local maximum, and the rate of decrease increased by a linear factor. Okay, let me stop whining. Today I am writing about two more people who influenced the way I think.

Everyone of us, store information in various disks located in our brain, which we term as "Knowledge" ( for a detailed understanding of how memory works, click here which takes you to the work of Maria Miniaci). Application of that knowledge according to the situation is "Common Sense" and when coupled with "Clarity of thought", it is called "Presence of mind". To display those qualities even under extreme conditions and the ability to pickup a lead to any given problem at any point of time can be possible to people who control "MIND" - a young untamed horse let loose into wilderness the moment we are born. Training that horse to unleash its potential, requires character and grit. Once it is trained, the capability to control one's own instincts/thoughts is achieved and calmness prevails. That eternal state of bliss enjoyed by a soul is called "Wisdom" and those souls can be ascribed with the prefix "Wise". (Note: During this process, a person transforms into a soul)

Seldom do we encounter the "Wise". I was fortunate enough to study under one of them, Prof.P.V.Ravi Kumar, Ex-Head of the Department, Dept. of Chemical Engineering. After attending his first lecture, I have recognised the loopholes in my "Thought-process". ( I shall post about the entire incident later, cos' it would give rise to a new set of discussion) Every conversation with him reminded the lack of clarity in my thoughts. I had learnt that "one should always be clear as to what he does(?) why he does(?) and how he does(?), while solving any problem, at any stage of life, and at any time".

Surya, one of my closest pals in life, with whom I met during my undergraduation and had spent 4 years of my life. His simplicity and passion to excel always stood as a motivating factor for me. He is now pursuing his Master's in Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Thats it for today...would probably end this section tomorrow....As of now,still working on the "Jordan Blocks" for assignment due 03 February.

Let peace prevail in this world :)

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Sun

Sources of Inspiration - Nature & People in my Life - 1

Hello everyone!!

My day was pretty hectic. I was working on some simple ODE systems, as part of my homework due on 29th January. As told in my first post I was planning to express my views on "Functions & Life", but, before starting, i felt it would be apt to let you know about my sources of inspiration.

To me Mathematics is a philosophy, rather than a subject. I look at it as the language man has developed to conceive and document the phenomena occuring in the nature. Understanding this language, would help to get an overall view of whats happening around us. All the observable features in the nature can be quantified using mathematics. 

Corollary: Every mathematical equation written represents a scientific phenomena, which vary upon perception.

An ordinary second order differential equation, when applied in a heat environment gives "Fourier's Law of Heat Conduction", and would lead to "Fick's Law of Diffusion" when applied in mass transfer environment.

A first order differential equation, would represent the growth of a species when applied in a tissue environment,and would represent radioactive decay when applied to a nuclear environment.

It was not until I was doing my Intermediate(equivalent to 12th grade) that I recognised the importance of Mathematics. Dr.U.Vinayak Rao and his lectures  stimulated me and I began to feel the role of mathematics in this universe. For him, "Mathematics is Life", and his classes was always full of life. They were more about applications of mathematics in real life and he always tried to create thoughts about the intrinsic relation between mathematics and science, in the students' minds.

It was in this class, that I met Popuri Hemant and Ganti Vasishta, two people who inspired me to work on mathematics. The intensity and speed with which they would solve a given problem, really posed a challenge for me to improve my problem tackling skills. Later in my life, during undergraduation, I met Ravikiran, whose story is an inspiration to every student. With a rural background, and basic education in local language, he made into one of the prestigious higher learning centers in India. His hardwork and dedication leaves me speechless.

I have no words right now. Shall continue tomorrow

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Sun

Me - Blogging

Welcome to my space!!

I am a graduate student in Chemical Engineering and you can call me "Sun". Gray matter in my brain is extremely vulnerable to the information on Mathematics, Science, Philosophy and would work round the clock generating thoughts. My intention in creating this blog is to present those thoughts before I end the day. I wish to update this space everyday from now and hope I do that with a normalized probability P(E) = 1; event E defined as "updating this web space everyday".

I end my first post here would start a digression on "Functions & Life" tomorrow

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Sun