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This is a list of my personal and scientific writings.

On Book-Studies

Topology of Numbers - IV

(Linear Fractional Transformations. Chapter 3 of Topology of Numbers.)

Topology of Numbers - III

(Introduction to continued fractions. Chapter 2 of Topology of Numbers.)

Topology of Numbers - II

(I will understand how geometry can be used to study numbers using a construction called the Farey Diagram. Chapter 2 of Topology of Numbers.)

Topology of Numbers - I

(In this sequence of posts, I will study results from the new book Topology of Numbers. My aim is not look for any particular result, just learn some ideas about ‘numbers’.)

On Excerpts

Wind, Sand and Stars

This post is a collection of my favorite passages form the book Wind,Sand and Starsl by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

On Reviews

General Magic

I recently watched a documentary on General Magic (link), a company whose vision of a portable computing device, was so ahead of its time that they failed to succeed. This company had everything aligned for them — the best people (veterans from Apple Mac team), the best location (Silicon valley), the right funding sources (an alliance of tech giants such as Sony and Motorola) — and yet they failed to failed to deliver on their promise. Why did they fail? I think it is because of the following reasons:

On personal

InterIIT Tech Meet - IIT Madras

(This is a small description of my visit to IIT Madras for the InterIIT Tech Meet.)

Keralam

(I will describe my visit to Indian Institute of Space and Technology, Trivandrum for National Initiative on Undergraduate Science Program in Astronomy. This probably is my last project related to astronomy as an undergraduate.)

Land of Franklin, Lincoln and Kennedy #1

This is a first in a series of posts about my internship in US. I will write about my experiences in research, travelling around and the fun things that happened.

Pulsar Observatory for Students

This was my introduction to radio astronomy. It was organised by National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) under Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).