Jeffrey Archer is one of my favourite authors and whenever he releases a new book, I make it a point to buy it or read it somehow. The latest offering of Archer, his second volume in the five volume series of The Clifton Cronicles was released last month, and I got it from a sister [...]
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It was more than a year ago (on 10th April, 2011) that I registered the domain name www.gonitsora.com. Then, it was a small idea by me and my friend, Pankaj Jyoti Mahanta. He had the idea to bring out a print magazine exclusively by the students of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tezpur University. With [...]
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Recently I gave an one hour talk on "The Foundations of Geometry" at the Department Seminar. Although the title sounds ambitious, what my talk comprised was roughly the first two chapters of David Hilbert's excellent book "The Foundations of Geometry" published sometime in 1902 in an English translation (available for free in the link provided). [...]
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Subramanyan Chnadrasekhar was an Indian born Indian-American astrophysicist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars. Many feel, including Chandrasekhar himself that this prize came to him about 40 years late. Still, as they say 'Better late than never'. Chandrasekhar [...]
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On the occasion of International Women's Day 2012, the editor of Fried Eye asked me to write something related to do with women. I thought what better opportunity than this to write something about the women in science without whose efforts the world would not have been such a wonderful place. The result can be [...]
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Recently I bought a new phone after much debate. I had settled on a Sony Ericsson Xperia SK17i. It was a latest model when I bought it about 6 months back. However, now there are better models in the market. In any case, I am happy with what I had and so I decided to [...]
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Well, there was a time when I was a voracious reader. I could read anything and everything. But gone are those days, now I am quite lazy in this matter. I have been reading a book of about 300 pages for almost a month now, and its just half finished. Still, I remember fondly those [...]
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Well, I have a draft saved but I am too lazy to finish it today. Instead let me say some things about the tech aspects of this blog. I now realise that I have never written anything about the technology used in maintaining this blog. So, here it goes. Just a disclaimer however. The pros [...]
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