Top
Home » Jayant V Narlikar
Jayant V Narlikar
About the AuthorJayant V Narlikar
The writer, a renowned astrophysicist, is professor emeritus at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune University. He was Cambridge University�??s Senior Wrangler in Maths in 1959.
    E.M. Forster (Photo: www.famousauthors.org)Opinion
    How many cheers for democracy?

    If war is to be avoided, the recourse is generally through the imposition of economic sanctions.

    10 March 2017 2:40 AM IST

    Murray Gell-MannOpinion
    How a good teacher operates...

    Not every teacher can copy the Feynman style of jumping up and down, raising and lowering the voice, etc.

    22 Feb 2017 12:45 AM IST

    The use of mathematics in daily life has come in an unexpected way, so much so that even the creators of a mathematical result are taken by surprise.Opinion
    Wonderful world of mathematics

    In 1957, the Soviet Union launched its first satellite, the Sputnik, which marked the advent of space technology.

    28 Jan 2017 1:21 AM IST

    Nalanda UniversityOpinion
    Here's why science declined in India

    The book was translated in Arabic and was highly regarded even by those outside the subcontinent.

    14 Dec 2016 6:05 AM IST

    In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell had predicted that electrical and magnetic disturbances are interrelated and travel in the form of an electromagnetic wave. (Representational image)Opinion
    Discoveries take science by surprise

    Einstein went for a completely new version of gravitation which he called the general theory of relativity.

    29 Nov 2016 12:44 AM IST

    X
    sidekick