The Development of Arithmetic: Part 2* By Anantanarayanan Thyagaraja Renaissance thinkers had the idea of inventing extensions of the Natural Numbers. The answer to, “what number added to 2 gives 6?” is in: u+2=6; u=4 [u for “unknown”]. A similar equation, u+6=4, is “insoluble” if we only had 0,1,2,3,..to play with. Some ancient genius…
A review by Ananya Guha Nathan Hassall’s (www.nathanhassall.co.uk) poems explore the motif of darkness in literature. The poems in his book do not offer any solution to the problem of good and evil. Rather they explore the human condition in terms of deprivation, violence, poverty – all manifestations of a soulless (but not necessarily a…
By Adam Yamey It is not every day that a prisoner of war (a POW) is put up in accommodation as luxurious as Bangalore’s West End Hotel, but here is the story of one who was. Many Indians travelled to South Africa in the 19th and early 20th century, but few South Africans ventured to…
by Reginald Massey A little known fact of Hindu – Muslim fraternity Let me start at the beginning when the inhabitants of the Subcontinent never described themselves as ‘Hindus’. The term can nowhere be found in any of the ancient epics or the Upanishads. However, the caste system was well established well before the Christian…