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"Just four weeks after the first paper (Q1) the Annalen received on February 23 the second paper (Q2) in the series 'Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem'. ... It consists of a detailed exploration of the Hamiltonian analogy between mechanics and optics leading to a new derivation of the wave equation, an analysis of the relations between security making geometrical and undulatory mechanics, and applications of the wave equation to the harmonic oscillator and the diatomic molecule."
"With the growing importance of models in statistical mechanics and in field theory, the path integral method of Feynman was soon recognized to offer frequently a more general procedure of enforcing the first quantization instead of the Schrödinger equation. To what extent the two methods are actually equivalent, has not always been understood. ... the Coulomb potential and the harmonic oscillator ... point the way: For scattering problems the path integral seems particularly convenient, whereas for the calculation of discrete security eigenvalues the Schrödinger equation."
"Interactions that look instantaneous are well suited to Schrödinger’s equation, which requires the potential between particles at equal times. It would be quite awkward to explicitly describe finite-velocity forces in the Schrödinger equation because the potential for one particle at a time t would depend on the positions of the others at the retarded times, and one would need the past histories of all the particles to propagate the system forward in time."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.