"It was not exactly as you say. In practice, the 12 of us never lived at home at the same time, because the family gre…"

"In this respect I recall with much sympathy the writer Virginia Woolf who wrote about this need for private space (A …"

"Hermite was born in 1822, four years before Riemann. Now in his sixties, he had become one of the standard-bearers fo…"

"...If you have enough ability, then you cultivate it and build on it, just as a musician plays scales and practices t…"

"Ancient Indian culture has regarded the science of numbers as the noblest of its arts … A thousand years ahead of Eur…"

"It’s the same kind of pleasure as with hiking: You hike uphill and it’s tough and you sweat, and at the end of the da…"

"In short, Indian science was born out of a mystical and religious culture and the etymology of the Sanskrit words use…"

"It is clear how much we owe to this brilliant civilization, and not only in the field of arithmetic; by opening the w…"

"The Indian mind has always had for calculations and the handling of numbers an extraordinary inclination, ease and po…"

"The Indian people were the only civilization to take the decisive step towards the perfection of numerical notation. …"