The search for the likes of Faradays and Maxwells is deliberate. They are exemplars of what the human mind is capable of achieving. The world's thriving electrical and electronics industry, on which so much of the quality of our lives depends, is due to them. Michael Faraday (1791 –1867)) (who didn't know mathematics), towards the end of his career, gave to science the concept of electric and magnetic fields, and in 1865 James Maxwell (1831 – 1879) (who knew a great deal of mathematics) gave Faraday's abstract concept a compact mathematical embodiment (which awed Faraday). Thus was laid the foundation of a phenomenal industry and the harnessing of a force of Nature that has changed the face of human civilization. Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone (perhaps the most important patent in history) came soon after in 1876. 
Amazingly, and with the benefit of hindsight, the common thread between Faraday and Maxwell was their ability to think and reason in abstract terms about the real world and eventually map them to measurable real world effects. Since the days of Galileo Galilei, modern science and mathematics have happily complemented each other by inventing and sharing concepts and ideas on a foundation of axiomatic reasoning. Modern mathematics is mainly deductive and essentially axiomatic, while modern science is mainly inductive and axiomatic to the extent it uses mathematics. The language of all advanced science (physics, in particular) is mathematics (which combines amazing symbolic brevity with reasoning). The ability of humans to frame and work with abstract concepts provide the vital link between mathematics and science.
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If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
--Thomas Jefferson
on Patents and Freedom of Ideas
on Patents and Freedom of Ideas
Management
Sunish Raj - CEO
Sunish Raj is the Founder CEO of Acadinnet Education Services India Private Limited. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering. Prior to Acadinnet, he was with IBM Software Labs in India for nearly 10 years.
Prof. Rajendra K Bera - Chief Mentor
An amateur pilot, Rajendra Bera holds a PhD in aeronautics and is Acadinnet's chief mentor. Apart from aircraft design, his research interests include quantum computing, molecular biology, and intellectual property rights. He was a visiting assistant professor at Oklahoma University, and researcher, inventor and mentor at IBM in Bangalore. read more...
Hiten Balsari - Advisor
Acadinnet Publications
Rajendra K. Bera, Sunish Raj, Hiten Balsari
When worldwide, universities are transitioning to become engines of economic growth, the self-created domestic disaster of India's education system going into a free-fall in terms of academic standards and the irrelevance of the education it provides has been India's biggest bottleneck in realizing its economic growth potential. In terms of knowledge creation, scientific discoveries, technological inventions, and even in imparting education at all levels, there has been a rapid decline in quality in the past two decades, leaving the country with an acute shortage of employable, university educated knowledge workers. Skill gaps are alarmingly high where higher-order skills are needed. Skill shortages in most industries continue to plague the growth of the Indian economy. Given these ground realities, rather than becoming the world's third largest economy by 2030, it is likely that India's economy will head towards a meltdown by then.
ISBN 978-3-8484-2573-0, Paperback
The book is now on sale; see http://www.amazon.com/Reality-check-Indias-economic-growth/dp/3848425734
ISBN 978-3-8484-2573-0, Paperback
The book is now on sale; see http://www.amazon.com/Reality-check-Indias-economic-growth/dp/3848425734
Rajendra K. Bera, Sunish Raj, Hiten Balsari
In this critique of the Planning Commission's draft Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan, the authors focus on two key aspects of the Indian economy - its rapidly declining education system, and its lack of a robust intellectual property system. If India is to maintain its economic growth these two systems must be overhauled thoroughly and quickly. We reason, barring a miracle, that India has no reasonable chance of becoming a country with the third largest GDP in the world in the coming two decades.
Insights in Science Lecture Abstracts
From hunter-gatherer to knowledge-worker
In very broad terms, the world's economic development can be divided into four stages: hunter-gatherer (till about 12,000 years ago; more than 99% of our time on earth), agricultural (beginning about 12,000 years ago till about 1500 AD), industrial (from about 1500 AD to later half of 20th century), and postindustrial (later half of 20th century and continuing)1 , although a substantial comingling of two or more stages can be seen even today in many countries, including the world's most advanced nations. The hunter-gatherer stage can support only about one inhabitant per square mile and demands a nomadic life involving extraordinary land-intensive activity. In the post-industrial information (knowledge-gatherer) age, we are primarily concerned about creating knowledge and using it to produce marketable products and services as quickly and economically as possible. The focus is therefore on knowledge workers. The knowledge-gatherer stage can support several orders of magnitude more inhabitants per square mile than was possible in the hunter-gatherer stage.
Axiomatic mathematics
Euclid's geometry is the first specific evidence of an axiomatic treatment of mathematics. Some 2000 years after Euclid, several mathematicians reexamined its axioms and discovered non-Euclidean geometry. One such geometry forms the space-time geometry of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The discovery of non-Euclidean geometry was a revolution in mathematics, which led to what now forms the heart of mathematics-formal axiomatic systems. Formal systems form the basis of reasoning in mathematics and of all the computations we do on digital computers.
How reliably can we compute?
Several simple computations, as implemented on digital computers, will be examined. Their surprising common feature is that while there is no flaw in the coded logic, the computations fail. The reason for their failure and their remedies will be discussed. The lesson: programming is not about coding; it is about algorithms and their error propagation characteristics. We shall also take a look at some unusual ways humans prove mathematical propositions.
On symmetry
The notion of symmetry plays a central role in theoretical physics. The central theme of this lecture is the Emmy Nöther theorem, which states that for every observable symmetry in Nature there is a corresponding entity that is conserved. And for every conservation law there is a corresponding symmetry. For example, the law of conservation of angular momentum is a consequence of the isotropy of space.
Quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation
The world of quantum mechanics is truly magical. In this lecture we will look at the basic mathematical framework around which QM is built, and then look at the amazingly simple solutions to two problems: (i) the safe exchange of keys for encrypted messages, and (ii) the teleportation of matter. In both these solutions, Charles Bennett, a distinguished IBM researcher, played a pioneering role.