Gaurav Bhatnagar
@bhatnagarg
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Gaurav Bhatnagar is a mathematician interested in q-series, special functions and elementary number theory.
New Delhi
Joined August 2009
Ramanujan Explained: A series of online lectures on Ramanujan's mathematics targeted towards undergrad/grad students. Please circulate this announcement in your communities.
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Indian team that didn't come from the olympiad exclusive selection procedure but still does phenomenally. Proves my point that India can dominate math competitions (and research) if only the govt has the good sense to listen to me! @kvijayraghavan what do you say now?.
A year of hard work finally paid off. For the first time we participated in ETEAM ( European tournament of enthusiastic apprentice mathematicians), and we came second. Kudos to the @LodhaGenius team, Ambika, and the students. Special thanks to @bhatnagarg for starting this!!
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Archna with Amitabha Tripathi and me (offical and unofficial PhD advisors) on her big day. Very proud of her determination and patience.
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If you want a practical application of this exercise, read Khare's book and find out about his amazing achievements.
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Ex (part II). No music on headphones allowed and if possible, leave your phone behind. This needs to be repeated at least once every week. But in each walk, you may think of only one subject in the hour.
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Ex (part I): Go for a long walk, alone, lasting at-least one hour, and mentally go over all the definitions and theorems done in complex analysis so far. You may make and carry a crib sheet; you may talk to yourself during this time---but otherwise stay silent.
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I read Chandrashekhar Khare's fantastic memoir "Chasing a conjecture" yesterday. Super slick and a quick read. I assign the following exercise in my courses (in next two tweets):.
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Archna's defence coming up July 9. One of the highlights of my academic career which are on the theme: I don't have a job but .
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RT @ItaiYanai: hanging out with strangers in a campus pub should be considered part of the serious process of thinking .
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VK's combinatorics book is still very modern. First place I saw schur functions introduced in an undergrad textbook. I recall buying a copy for my advisor too.
Remembering Prof. V Krishnamurthy ji. It came as a quiet shock to learn of the passing of Prof. V Krishnamurthy - a person whose presence was always gentle, grounded, and full of thoughtful conviction. In this moment of loss, we remember them not only for his insightful
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No surprise here. As I tell my students, their brains are unused. If they don't use them, they stay unused. Some students felt bad, so I started saying their brains are pristine . .
There's a lot of talk about integrating AI into our teaching. Using LLMs comes at a cognitive cost. Are we ready to pay it? .
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If you are interested in Kabir as applied to math, you may find something interesting too.
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100+ identities of Ramanujan are now explained. First draft of Part 1 is now available. Its an intro to q-series, hypergeometric series and q-continued fractions of Ramanujan.
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RT @inimitablepgw: One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at th….
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RT @DineshSinghEDU: Do We Teach Too Much?. My latest column in the .New Indian Express. I firmly believe we overload our students with too….
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So true!.
If you say the phrase "I am a math teacher" three times in front of a mirror, someone's going to appear to tell you how much they hated math in school.
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RT @AlexKontorovich: This very sad news just reached me. I was only a few weeks ago talking to Sarnak about how next summer both Lax and Se….
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It so happens I was writing up Eisenstein's Continued Fraction as an exercise and here is something nice about him. .
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Halmos: Mathematics is learnt by doing mathematics.
Corollary for academia: Understanding of engineering comes from doing engineering.
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