World renowned mathematician and founder of Super 30 Anand Kumar was in city on Monday. He addressed a seminar for the engineering students at IES Public School auditorium.
The entire hall was jam-packed with the students of engineering and the aspirants who want to pursue engineering in the future. It was an open session wherein Anand Kumar explained the students about various challenges.
During his speech he also talked about the examination pressure and how to deal with it. It is to be noted that Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines. He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology.
By 2017, 396 out of the 450 had made it to the IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary. He has been invited by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to speak on his globally acclaimed effort to mentor students from the underprivileged sections for admission to IIT. He was also a participant at Kaun Banega Crorepati 2017.
Anand while interacting with the students shared his life difficultiues with them. He told them about what struggle he had to go through to start a life after his father’s sudden death. Anand in his speech shared his methodology about solving mathematics and how with self-motivation a student can reach heights.
It was an interactive session wherein students also asked their queries to Anand and cleared their doubts.