The Language of the Gods in the World of Men
Sheldon Pollock’s magisterial work of scholarship, a winner of The Coomaraswamy Book Prize,…
Some Guys Have All the Luck: Dirac Equation
By Hindu philosophy, Paul Dirac must have had amazing karma points carried over from previous lives.
Newton v Schrodinger (and Heisenberg)
Easily the most-hyped and mis-interpreted result in quantum physics, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is an inevitable consequence of non-commutativity introduced by Schrodinger.
Śrīdhara Brāhmaṇa: Pythagoras Theorem and Time Dilation
Special Relativity is likely the most consequential application of Pythagoras Theorem!
Śrīdhara Brāhmaṇa: Integer Solutions and Ising Model
In plain English, finding integer feasible solutions physically, exploiting adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics.
Śrīdhara Brāhmaṇa: Imaginary Numbers and Electron Spin
Continuing the commentary on Quantum Integer Programming (QuIP) in conversational English.
Śrīdhara Brāhmaṇa (श्रीधर ब्राह्मण): Numbers and Magnets
A commentary on Quantum Integer Programming written in every day vernacular.
Neo-Quantum Organon, Book One: Quantum Integer Programming (QuIP)
Readying for 2020, and celebrating the 400 year old classic published in 1620, with a quippy post on quantum computing and integer programming.
“Please do not snap your fingers”
INFORMS, 1995. Washington DC. Evening. Dark clouds approaching, likely thundershowers later. My first…
An Academic Capitalist View of Life
The title is an insouciant play on S. Radhakrishnan’s An Idealist View…