Award of Gold Medal by the Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science (Hungary) to Dr. C.K. Raju (Distinguished Professor & Director - Academic), INMANTEC

jun 6th, 2010

i was more interested in dr raju's work on the kerala school of math and astronomy, and how their manuscripts on the infinite series for trigonometric functions (taylor and maclauren series [sic] which should properly called the madhava and paramesvara series) were taken by jesuits in kerala to the vatican and thence spread to the rest of europe. it is quite likely that newton and liebniz got their ideas about the differential calculus from these extremely important papers. they also led to the revolution in navigation whereby with tables of printed trigonometric functions and a sextant it became possible to navigate the open ocean. this led, of course, to the era of european colonization, alas.

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From: <tarun.singhal@inmantec.edu>
Date: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:05 PM
Subject: Award of Gold Medal by the Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science (Hungary) to Dr. C.K. Raju (Distinguished Professor & Director - Academic), INMANTEC
To: 

Dear  Mr. Rajeev Srinivasan ,

We feel elated to share with you that Dr. C.K. Raju (Distinguished Professor & Director - Academic), INMANTEC has been selected for the award of a Gold Medal for the year 2010 by the Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science.

The award ceremony is to be held on 12 June 2010 at the University of Pécs, in Pécs, a city in Hungary declared the European Capital of Culture for 2010. (See, http://english.pte.hu/esemeny/2010/6/12.)

The award to Prof. Raju is for pointing out a mistake made by Albert Einstein and correcting it. The full citation is at http://www.telesiogalilei.com/tg/index.php/academy-award-2010, and in the attached press release (in both Hindi and English).

I also attach a photo of Dr. C.K. Raju, assuming you would want to carry this exciting news.

Prof. Raju is available in Delhi till June 10 (forenoon), for comments and questions regarding his work. His contact number is 093104-31415.

For any other clarifications please feel free to contact me at 098102-69856

 

With regards

Dr. TARUN KUMAR SINGHAL

DEAN - IT STUDIES

E: tarun.singhal@inmantec.edu

M: +91 9810269856

T: +91 120 2768951

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