The true GEMS of India, incredible humility despite accomplishing such tall feats in Mathematics....hats off to to prof Niranjan and Krishnan....you make all of us proud!
Prof. Niranjan took my interview for the PhD program in IITB. Even though I wasn’t selected, I genuinely appreciate how supportive he was throughout the interview and open to my propositions and claims. I came out of it thinking what a nice person I had on the panel. Glad to see a longer conversation with him here!
@@anshumanawasthi8693 Look, I discussed a lot of different topics with him, and it's really hard to mention all of them in the comment section. But to confirm that I really talked to Arjun Gupta, I was one of the members of the official IMO 2024 WhatsApp group.
@@Maths_3.1415 ohh, I thought u met him somewhere and then had a little conversation with him. Arjun is really brilliant and inspiration for upcoming IMO participants.
@@anshumanawasthi8693 All six members of the Indian IMO 2024 team performed their best and will be an inspiration for all mathematics enthusiasts. One day, India will also receive the Fields Medal.
We don't have a single credible masters programme in econometrics, (except ISI MSQE), and most students get into private sector rather than policy making.
1 International Mathematical Olympiad 2 International Physics Olympiad 3 International Chemistry Olympiad 4 International Olympiad in Informatics 5 International Biology Olympiad 6 International Philosophy Olympiad 7 International Astronomy Olympiad 8 International Geography Olympiad 9 International Linguistics Olympiad 11 International Earth Science Olympiad 12 International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics Inko bhi bula do sir
Loved it.... my daughter who is in class 4th listened to it along with me. Hope i am able to inspire he to be as good as you all are. Thanks for bringing this incredible talk
@@HarshadA-q2r agree she is young for podcast....I was watching it so she joined in. I was explaining to her what they were talking about. I was just trying to challenge her thinking. Appreciate your point
Thank you for getting mathematicians from IITon board. Everybody needs to compete weather wins or loses. Not only for MIT Harvard. It relates to every thing we do in life Numbers game. Vernacular schools in free India we were good at it. We did not have this type of competition. Thank you for all you guys Hard Work. Thank you you all from Delaware USA
@NityanandMisra :- The JEE syllabus may be vast but its nothing compared to what is there in IMO. For example IMO people learn a lot of unknown geometry and combinatorial stuff which is unimaginable.
Great to have representation of mathematicians! I was one of those who never heard about the Olympiads until it was too late. Luckily I did join ISI nonetheless. Statistics is not mathematics, but you can't do real statistics without maths! (And, statistics will actually make you money lol)
I would say Statistics is the other side of the coin where one side is Mathematics. Math deals with surety while Stats deals with uncertainty. Eg. while lots of Math is involved in Physics but when you go to quantum level, it involves Probability. Same thing is happening in Economics & game theory (Sanjeev Sanyal brings about this insight very well) and many more disciplines.
Mathematics has always my bugbear since childhood! I had many douts in my mind but could not be clarified mostly due to fear of asking questions from teachers but some extent due to inexperienced teachers. First doubt I l i got was - 2+2=4, 2×2=4 meaning that multiplication & addition is the same. But why 2×0=0. Similarly, was the circumference of the circle ! I had sneaking suspicion that if we convert circle in to a straight line, length of the line should be the equal to the circumference! But I never ventured to ask this doubt to be clarified from teacher nor the teacher ever tried to !!!! But I clarified this dout at my own after retirement. My point is to say that at the initial level where we need the most experienced teachers- there are the least experienced.
The glint in Shri Misra's eyes when Prof Krishnan explains what a gamaka is - just priceless. I can only imagine the joy the Sanskritist feels when he sees how the supposedly arcane language he studies survives so nicely in the vocabulary of music!
We can motivate at rural level participation of students by making elementary mathematics a fun experience and organising mathematics festival on weekly basis on village level.
The reason why IMO students in US can dedicate more time (5 months) for preparation is because talented 12th grade seniors have completed their college applications and almost finished high school. Either they relax and enjoy the last semester or dedicate time for such pursuits as this or others (eg. on job training / internships / leadership / mentorship etc ).
India government also need to have privisions for the medallists to be awarded admission into IIT's e5c can really help boost participation and encouragement...
Most awaited podcasts.. Among all podcasters , Nityanand misra sir .. Essentially, because u bring mathematicians to the podcasts.. I love to see the conversation of mathematicians , physicists , ( in general , men of all kind of pure sciences) , philosophers , polymath people, sanatan philosophy… Scholars of Veds etc … U took interview of gold medalist 2024, Rushil Mathur , as well.. which has again been the superb one ..👌🏻👌🏻 Pls keep inviting our such prodigies, sir … Younger generation will be very grateful to you…
Sir Namaskar! I am a regular viewer of your program . Your program is very informative. You describe everything according to our Dharma Grantha.Sir, I am a patient of meningitis. If there is a treatment method of this disease in our Dharma Grantha, please make one video so that all suffered people would get advantaged. 🙏 
lots of good info toward the end. For instance Sage in lieu of Mathematica. May I have a large container of coffee. Discovered that I am not alone in my feeling about Mandukya Upanishad.
Indian yt space needs more of such intellectual talks about Maths and Science. Thx sir for inviting these brilliant minds. ❤ Pls bring more such podcasts..
What a refreshing change listening to these brilliant minds. With podcasts on every thing in the world, I find this to be very interesting. Thanks for having these brilliant Mathematicians on your podcast
This is one of the better podcasts I've seen recently, thanks for this content.❤ Although, I would liked to have discussion around couple more points: 1. How do they feel about having AI competing with them in a olympiad? 2. How the training methods for olympiad have evolved overtime, and how are they envisioning it in future?
20:25 thanks. These type of podcasts is the way social media can be useful for spreading knowledge and awareness. This will help bringing our glory set by Aryabhatt and Ramanuj. Thanks for the prodcast
Brilliant !!!. It was a treat to watch and hear three great minds speak. Nityanandji your videos are educative & inspiring. Thank you for this wonderful effort. The session with Rushil was also great !
Pythagoras, for whom the theorem is named, lived in ancient Greece, 2500 years ago. It is believed that he learned the theorem during his studies in Egypt. The Egyptians probably knew of the relationship for a thousand years before Pythagoras.
@@descendantofbharatbharatva7155 yes they did. I don't deny it. Egyptians are the cradle of civilization. I have no question on one thing. The so-called Pythagoras theorem was very well known by the time Pythagoras existed . This is undeniable.
Very inspiring! Only wish schools in India had such profound teachers of the subject ( as above) to enable the students to overcome their fear of the subject and make them love the subject.
Thinking about IMO entey is only for CBSE,IGSE students in India,Found this truth as my state board never take efforts for priamry level maths,but CBSE,IGSE level does take efforts at primary level ,please help all kids # mother
India's performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) faces challenges due to how the education system is set up. In India, there is a big focus on exams like the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which stresses quick problem-solving and memorizing over understanding and creativity. This focus makes it hard for students to develop the problem-solving skills needed for success in the IMO. There are also many fake Olympiads, like the SOF IMO, that can mislead students and take away time and resources from real preparation. Additionally, many students feel pressure to pursue careers in engineering and medicine, so they don’t focus as much on mathematics. This contributes to why India doesn’t have as many celebrated mathematicians or Fields Medal winners. Unless the education system starts to focus more on creativity and exploration, India's achievements in international math competitions will likely continue to lag behind other countries.
Another point to note is that when I speak the truth, some obnoxious people reply that I can’t clear the JEE, which is why I must be saying all this nonsense. They claim the JEE is the hardest exam in the world and dismiss any criticism, insisting that the JEE is the best.
By the way, I forgot to mention that this podcast was absolutely fantastic! 🎉 I really enjoyed it and found it incredibly valuable. Thank you so much for putting it together for all of us! 🙏😊
@@divyanshgarg5434 Yes, even professors are saying that the JEE is one of the factors contributing to the decline in mathematical achievements in India, such as the absence of Fields Medal winners.
@@Maths_3.1415kuch log Lund reh jate hai jee is a high school exam whereas u win fields medal after PhD in research so comparing doesn't make sense just an advice don't do drugs funding in our universities is a big promblem solve that saying jee as memory based exam is kind of stupid ya u will find some questions in coaching but the questions which really differentiate between air under 50 to air 500 are kind of olympiad style and don't forget olympiad medalist are mostly jee top rankers just Google even 2024 india physics , maths , chemistry olympiad medalist all were jee top 200 rankers
My cousin's grandson, Santanu, was one of the coaches of 2024 Olympiad team. I shared this podcast with his parents. Unfortunately my cousin is no more. Shantanu graduated from IIT BOMBAY.
The joke about the scottish sheep involves Physicist, Statistician and Mathematician ( so not Engineer). But really a wonderful interview with both serious and lighter moments. Many thanks. And another thing one can say is atleast three mathematicians in India have a great personality.
K R Parthasarthy was the head of math at IIT Delhi for a while, sorry to hear he has passed away. I can't remember the name of the fellow who taught us Laplace transforms. I believe he was an algebraist (we vaguely understood such specialization even back then), but he was delighted to be teaching a bunch of very smart would-be engineers and scientists -- he could barely keep his feet on the ground. Looking back, I would fault the faculty at IIT D for not engaging the students in research -- faculty in the US would commit serious felonies to compete with each other for the chance to have such talented students.
Superb podcast. Please also have an episode on Memory Championships - I'm not sure if people from our country participate in it. But it will be incredibly interesting.
If Board exams and JEE clash , is it difficult to change the timetable...May be we need to look at these things holistically....Because in my opinion Medals are not the be all and end all. How these students contribute to the mathematics in their life time is a very important aspect ....Once we were the pioneers in many aspects of mathematics and Astronomy... We need to reagin ....Excellent program... Hats off to all the professors who are toiling hard to contribute...
Last two podcasts of yours are my favourite. Do some more podcasts on academics. Do bring at least Prof Siva and Prof Niranjan one more time on show and discuss in details about philosophy , bird watching and their favourite books.
If I become millionaire I will certainly set the 1cr prize for those who win Olympic medal .this way it will help maths to get popularize n more people take it.
Respected Sir Your videos are highly informative and I appreciate the way you're creating awareness about Sanskrit and Shudh Hindi language. Kindly guide about the career options for school students interested to study Sanskrit as their main subject/specialization. Regards
Quite an informative talk. Though I was a math background at Bachelor degree level but got lost into job market. Further, at Bachelor degree level we studied Mechanics, Astronomy, Differential Equations, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Linear Algebra, Linear Programming etc . We also had Numerical Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. We all had these with no practical 😂 in real life situation. Because of mathematical knowlege, logic and reasoning are our basis which enable to succeed in any non- math life.
Namaste sir! It is Kushe (Desmostachya bipinnata) Aunsi of hindu religion today. I would like to request you to make us light on this topic and the importance of Desmostachya bipinnata(Kush) in the point of view of Ayurveda.
I am reminded of another joke on mathematics. A young lady asks a quiz at a party . . two cars are traveling towards each other at 5 kmph. The cars are 10 km apart. As the cars start moving, a bee starts flying from one are to the other at 30 kmph speed. When it reaches the opposite car, it turns around and starts flying towards the first car and so on until the two cars meet. The question was how much distance did the bee fly until the cars met. A math professor replied "30 km" in a moment. The lady said, your are a genius, Sir. It is simple, the cars would take one hour to meet and the bee would have have covered 30 km in that hour. But some silly persons would make it into a problem of infinite series and take all the time to solve the series. The professor exclaimed , but that is how I did it.
This joke apparently involves a physicist and von Neumann. von Neumann solved it in a blaze, and the physicist was not much slower. When they were questioned, the physicist said he multiplied the total time with the bee's speed. "Holy macro!" said von Neumann. "I summed the series." Incidentally, exactly this problem is quite challenging for many undergrads in the US when posed as a series question. They all enjoy it, but setting it up is not easy for them.
India should provide all IMO medal winners a direct admission in IISc, IIT, NIT, BITS of their choice. If MIT, Oxford etc can do it then why can’t IITs do it.
They should go beyond that. Why not the top 1000 students, on qualifiers. Such students have demonstrated they are capable of hard work and mastery. Admissions needs more flexibility. JEE isn't the only way to identify talent.
मिश्र जी नमस्कार। आप के समक्ष एक अनुरोध है: हमारे महाविद्यालय में अधिकारी वृंध एक नूतन फलक लगाने, उस फलक में "सा विद्या या स्वास्थ्य संपदे" लिखा हुआ है। पूर्व में "सा विद्या या स्वास्थ्य संपदा" थी। दोनो में कौन सी वाक्य अर्थ पूर्ण है। यदि दोनो सही नही तो वास्तविक वाक्य का उल्लेख करे। यह कार्यक्रम २/३ दिन में संपन्न होने वाली है। हमारे महाविद्यालय के कीर्ति पूरे कर्नाटक में विद्यमान है,इसीलिए आपसे यह अनुरोध करता हु की सम्यक वाक्य का आप दर्शन कराए। धन्यवाद।
I see that TIFR conducts IMO-IND but not sure if they are sponsors too. I think the Indian IMO body should approach TATA / TCS or Infosys to build brand value around it just like what has happened in chess. I think it will be complimentary to their Chess sponsorship.
Need more such podcasts. Mathematics is the basis of creative and scientific thinking and such podcasts encourage young mathematicians, scientists and engineers.
Teaching math and being academically gifted in math are two different ball games. Most Professors in colleges might have a PhD in Math but they can't teach the subject. Rarely you would find someone who is gifted in both the departments. That's why most people end up hating math.
