A Beautiful Mind of India, Vashishtha Narayan Singh

Singh was an Indian math prodigy whose tragic life stories are yet to be known by the world. Credit: Firstpost Many people have watched the movie, “A Beautiful Mind”, a screenplay that is a cinematographed version of a biography of the same name. It is the biography of a math genius and child prodigy, John…

Kaktovik Numerals plus Silicon Valley equals Voila

A visually intuitive numeric system was about to be forgotten until UC Berkley Linguists and Silicon Valley techies came forward to rescue it. Credit: Amanda Montañez and Scientific American What number do you get while subtracting 3 from 18? 15. How did you do it? With MENTAL operations that your math teacher taught in the…

Two New Prefixes for Big SI Units-Ronna and Quetta

For small numbers, ronto and quecto, respectively. Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash An electron weighs a “rontogram”, Jupitar weighs two “quettagrams”, and the diameter of the observable universe is around one “rontometer”. This is how Katrina starts her article for the Chemistry World. General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), the authority that decides…