The National Mathematics Day was celebrated at the Department of Mathematics and Computing of IIT-ISM today to inspire and motivate our students and the younger generation to devote their lives to Mathematics .
The guest speakers were Prof. M.S. Raghunathan, Prof. Sudhir Ghorpade and Prof. Nitin Saxena.
Prof. Rajiv Shekhar, Director of IIT(ISM) Dhanbad gave a life sketch of the great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan on whose birth anniversary it is being celebrated .
Prof. M. S. Raghunathan, Padma Bhusan & Padma Sree used the quote “As are the crests of the peacocks, as are the jewels of the serpents, so is mathematics at the helm of all Sciences”.
Prof. Sudhir Ghorpade talked about “History Development of the Theory of Equations and the beginnings of Modern Algebra”.
Prof. Nitin Saxena talked about “prime numbers and circuits” and discussed a path-breaking idea of Primality test algorithms.
Prof. R. K. Upadhyay, Head of the department discussed about How to improve the visibility and TRP of the Department at the National and International level and the achievements and future plans of the department.