Author Archives: Saksham

Einstein’s collected works at the Einstein Paper Project, Pasadena (LA)

Recently, I had an opportunity to visit the Einstein Papers Project (EPP), a centre that is currently compiling, organising, and publishing all the major and minor written works by the great 20th century theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. This centre is born out of the efforts from Einstein’s secretary Miss Helen Dukas and close friend OttoContinueContinue reading “Einstein’s collected works at the Einstein Paper Project, Pasadena (LA)”

Congratulatory post – incoming Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh

This post is intended to congratulate Mr Adnan Mahmud, who is going to join the University of Edinburgh as a Ph.D. student and work on digital twins using Bayesian networks for real-time uncertainty quantification and predictive analysis. After supervising Adnan on the Fluid Mechanics course for Cambridge CE Tripos, we worked on a series ofContinueContinue reading “Congratulatory post – incoming Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh”

2-player games: Ergodic Theory and Ramsey Theory results

This post aims to summarise key results from the literature of two-player games, both finite (with an absorbing state) and infinite (without an absorbing state). Canonical examples include competitive or recreational games like chess, tic-tac-toe (including the ultimate version), and attacker-follower games (known as Stackelberg games in game-theoretic economics). On Math Stack Exchange, for overContinueContinue reading “2-player games: Ergodic Theory and Ramsey Theory results”

Sustainability Economics

“Operation Ranch Hand” (1962-1971) used aerial-spary (of defoliants and herbicides) to prevent Viet Cong from using food and vegetation cover for their ambush. The procurement of chemicals for the spray, particularly, napalm from the Dow Chemical and Agent Orange from Monsanto, Hercules Inc. (and a few more companies) was objected by 17 nobel laureates, 5000ContinueContinue reading “Sustainability Economics”

Digital Arts Exhibition, COP29 Baku

Plato defined three pillars of aesthetics: “beauty (subjective $latex S$), imitation (mechanical $latex M$), and inspiration (retention $latex R$)”. With his dialogues focusing on dramatic poetry (the prevalent art form in Plato’s era), the “aesthetics around art” of those times seems to be an intermingling of multifacetedness (effect of $latex S$) and chronological continuity (effectContinueContinue reading “Digital Arts Exhibition, COP29 Baku”

Fluid Dynamics, Computer Science, and Geometry – Barcelona 2024

After the June 2023 workshop organised in Royal Institution, London on “Navier-Stokes regularity, fluid computing, and machine learning”, which hosted the guest lecture by Prof. Eva Miranda, who was awarded the Hardy lecturer title, Eva, Daniel, and Ángel organised a first of its own kind workshop in Barcelona, in September 2024. Spanning almost a week,ContinueContinue reading “Fluid Dynamics, Computer Science, and Geometry – Barcelona 2024”

Euler’s (compiled) works in Bernoulli-Euler Zentrum, Basel

Recently, I had an opportunity to visit the University of Basel in Switzerland, which houses a fascinating archive centre in its University Library — the “Bernoulli-Euler Center (BEZ in German)”, founded in 2010.I was kindly hosted and given a brief tour of the archive centre by the researcher and archivist based in the centre, SulamithContinueContinue reading “Euler’s (compiled) works in Bernoulli-Euler Zentrum, Basel”

A few disjoint thoughts collating “numbers”

The spring of 2024 started with a new habit, that turned into a hobby, and eventually, a fascinating observation. Counting the number of veins in either half of the leaf, I found a repeated pattern that the number is more likely to be an odd or prime number than even number (there were significantly minorContinueContinue reading “A few disjoint thoughts collating “numbers””

History Rhymes: Lessons from Lusitania

(highly borrowed from Naming Infinity) What’s distinctive about Russian mathematics of early 20th century is perhaps to see one’s work and interests as closely connected to issues of philosophical, spiritual, and ideological nature. In simple words, to see knowledge as an interlinked, united whole. There is a sense of obligation to practice such a mindset,ContinueContinue reading “History Rhymes: Lessons from Lusitania”