Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics?

The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. These prizes were created by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award. Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. However a prize in Mathematics is absent from this list. This even I came to know recently and wanted to know why Maths is not included, so after searching I got this result at cliqueway.wordpress.com.

One of the most unfounded reasons as to why Nobel decided against a Nobel Prize in math is that a woman he loved rejected him because of (or cheated him with) a famous mathematician. Gosta Mittag-Leffler is often claimed to be the guilty party. There is no historical evidence to support the story. But one thing is all known that Mr. Nobel was never married.

One more thing a chief purpose for creating the Nobel Foundation was to honor people who do something practical to help humanity.And Mathematics was not considered a practical science from which humanity could benefit.

Further, at the time there existed already a well known Scandinavian prize for mathematicians. If Nobel knew about this prize he may have felt less compelled to add a competing prize for mathematicians in his will.

10 Ways to pretend you are studying

( This ideas are robbed from MTV Ticker )

1. Put on headphones and listen to music. Tell your mom you are listening to recorded lectures.

2. Keep texting your friend. Say you are testing each other by SMS.
3. Read a magazine. Say you’re using the article as a case study for something.
4. Solve a Su-doku and say your math teacher asked you to do it.
5. Pretend you’re doing an assignment and write love poems for your crush.
6. Keep a book open and doze off. When your mom wakes you up, say you were memorising in your head.
7. Call your friend and chat. When your mom comes in, start asking questions about your subject.
8. Keep surfing online and say you’re researching further information.
9. Keep your book right next to your sibling who’s watching TV and make irrtated faces whenever your mom looks at you.
10. Projects are the best thing to happen to education. Do whatever you like and say it’s a project.

Gtalk Tips and Tricks

Run Multiple Accounts In Google Talk Simultaneously

Google Talk does not provide option to login to multiple accounts by default. If you have several Gmail accounts that you want to login in Google talk, follow this procedure.

1. Right click on desktop. Select NEW and then SHORTCUT

2. Paste this into text box “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex”
3. Click NEXT and name it Google Talk Multiple (or whatever).
4. Click OK until you are done
Use this new shortcut on your desktop to login to multiple accounts in Google Talk simultaneously.

Make the text bold, italic and underline in Google Talk

Yes you can do basic formatting with text in GTalk. There is no formatting panel or visible button to do so but you can easily write bold, italic and underline text. If you want to type a sentence or some word in bold, just add a * before and after that text so *ppv999* will give you ppv999. To make text italic, enclose the text in _underscores_.

Create contact shortcut on desktop

You can create a shortcut on your desktop to chat or call any friend. You can click this shortcut anytime to chat with your friend or call them. For example if you want to make a shortcut for ppv999@gmail.com, right click on your desktop and go to New > Shortcut and type gtalk:chat?jid=ppv999@gmail.com for text chatting or gtalk:call?jid=ppv999@gmail.com for call.

Write Paragraphs in Gtalk

If you want to write a message that spans multiple paragraphs, hold shift and hit enter to start a new paragraph. It will move cursor to new line.

Change the font size in Google Talk

Hold the control key and move mouse wheel up or down for adjusting the text size to your liking. This trick works on write and read areas.

Show Hyper links in Gtalk

You can show your website or blog by simply writing the URL in away message (at the top of main window). It will turn it in a clickable and invisible link to others.

Know calorie count of food items in Gtalk

You can know calorie count of food items using Gtalk. Add calories@lifemojo.com in your Google Talk (click add button and enter calories@lifemojo.com) and then send food name as message to know about calories in that item. Send messages like: rice to know about calories in rice.

Use Gtalk as free website live chat client

Place Gtalk button on your site and visitors can contact you using it. You can create your Google Talk badge here.

Is a Google Talk contact Invisible?

Yes there is a glitch in Google Talk’s invisible status and we can take advantage of it to know if a user is really offline or in invisible status to avoid you. Follow these steps to find out.
1. Select the chat as off the record with the target user (Google tells you HOW). This can only be done if the target user is online.
2. Now try sending chat to the target contact.
3. If the contact is invisible, he/she will receive the chat. In case if they are offline, you will get an error message like “ did not receive your chat”.
This is simple tip to checkout if a user is invisible on Gtalk.

Use Google Talk With Twitter

Invite twitter@twitter.com to your friends list in Gtalk and verify your account. Whenever you IM this account, the message will automatically publish on your twitter account.

An Electronics Engineers Love Song

( I would have surely used this one if I had to propose a girl from my class :-) )

I was alone and all was dark

Beneath me and above

My life was full of volts and amps

But not the spark of love

But now that you are here with me

My heart is overjoyed

You turn the square of my heart

Into a sinusoid

You load things from my memory

Onto my system's bus

My life was once assembly code

Now it's C++

I love the way you solder things

My circuits you can fix

The voltage across your diode is

much more than just point six

With your amps and resistors

You have built my integrator

I cannot survive without you

You are my function generator

You have charged my life, increased my gain

And made my maths discreet

And now I'll end this song right here

Control, Alt and Delete.

Note : This is not an original work of art by me. Its a song commonly found on many blogs on the net.

Haircut

Few days back I had my hair cut really short. I believe it is called Zero Cut or something. Well to tell the truth it was hated by almost everyone. But the interesting part was the comments and reasons which people had for my haircut. I am listing some of them here.

1) The most common one was that it was a Ghajini cut. For heavens sake theGhajini cut has a stupid looking line running over the head and I obviously dint have that. But still it dint stop people from commenting that I am trying to look like Aamir Khan etc. etc...

2) Since I had the cut during the holidays some people asked me if I had been to Tirupati :-)

3) Some of my friends felt that I looked like the Australian cricketer Stuart Clark and my cousin had posted my photo on his Orkut profile where his friend has commented " I this J.P Duminy ?". To visit his profile click here.

4) I was also asked if I was trying to save money on haircut by making a complete vasuli of the Barber effort.

5) My cousin felt I was trying to copy Akshy Kumar from Tashan.

Well ands to tell the truth it was surly not because of any of the reasons stated above. But it was to some extent due to this beautiful TITAN ad. Its not that I wanted to copy Aamir's hair style in the ad but I just wanted to "shock my reflection."

History of India - Funny

Note : All the spelling mistakes are Intentional.

The first known permanent settlements in India were in the Indus Vally. In this time the people lived in two cities called Hariappa and Mujhe-na-Daro. These cities had the best drain system in the world and hence India has suffered from brain drain from the ancient times.

In olden times there were two big families in India. One was called the Pandava and the other was called the Karova. They fought amongst themselves in a battle called Mahabharat,which inspired the famous catch line MeraBharat Mahan.

In the third century BC, India was ruled by Morya dynasty. They were called so because they all died a nasty deth. One of their greatest leader was Chandragupta Morya. His present day decedent include one Mr. Mellito Morya from GEC. Later India flourished under Ashoka the Great also spelled as Asoka. He looked like Shahrukh Khan and romanced Kareena Kapoor. He was able to concur large parts of India as he had a strong six pack body.

Then came the Tughlaqs who shifted their capital from Delhi because of its pollution. They were followed by the Googles. Akbar is coincided to be the greatest Google because he was able to convince Jadoo to marry him. Jadoo is believed to be a alien from another planet. The Google famously said " Hum apne dushmano ko dund dhund ke marte hai". Hence they inspired the name of a famous search engine.

Then came Shahajahan who had 14 sons. Family planning had not been invented at that time. He also built the Taj Mahal hotel for his wife who now sleeps there. The king sent all his sons away to distant parts of India because they started quarrelling. Dara Seiko was sent to UP, Shaikh Bhakhtiyar was sent to J & K, while Orangezip came to Bombay to fight Shivaji. However,after that they changed its name to Mumbai because Shivaji's sena did not like it.

After the Mowglis came Vasco the Gama. He had actually come to Goa for a holiday from Portugal. But he liked the place so much that he decided to stay here permanently and even called his friends and relatives to stay with him. However later in 1961 they were all evicted by Mr. Nehru as they did not pay the hotel rent. Then came the British. They brought with them many inventions such as cricket, steamed railways and laws like IPC 377. They were followed by the French who brought in French fries and laundry. But Robert Clive drove them out when he won the Battle since the British had the queen on their side.

Eventually, the British came to overrule India because there was too much diversity in our unity. The British overruled India for a long period.They were great expotents and impotents. They started expoting salt from India and impoting cloth. This was not liked by a gujju by the name Gandhibhai who wanted to produce his own salt as the british salt was not Iodised. So he started his own company to produce salt and called it the Swedish moment. In this production he used the latest technology which he had learnt in South Africa called Salta-Aagra. It is because of this technology the salt pans in Goa are called Agars. It is speculated that South Africa gave him the rights to use this technology in return for the rights of IPL 2, though there is no confirmed report on this.

In 1920, GandhiBahi was married to one wife. Soon after he became the father of the nation. In 1942 he started the Quiet India moment, so named because the British were quietly lootoing our country. In 1947, I

In 1947 Pandit Nehru asked the British for freedom at midnight since the British were afraid of the dark. At midnight, on August 15, there was a tryst in Parliament in which many participated by wearing khadi and hosting the flag. After India became free and its people became freely loving. This increased our population. Now the government has became a democracy, which means people are allowed to take the law in their own hands with the help of the police hence making people intolerant against any insults to their nation or national leaders.

- Pranav Pai Vernekar.

*Disclaimer: Above post is written solely for entertainment purpose and I do not intend to hurt any one's partiotic feelings. Please take this jokes on the nation and the national leaders in purely humorous manner.

*This post is inspired from an e-mail forward.

GEC in Rains

My college (Goa Engineering College) is blessed with beautiful nature in its surroundings and it looks even more beautiful in rains. Here are some pictures clicked by me in the college during the rains times.

This is a Mini waterfall just outside the main gate. I don't know what its actually called in case you know the actually term for mini waterfall then please let me know :-)

This one is clicked on the Infinity Ground. I like the angle in which it is clicked giving the effect of a large water body. The GEC windmill can be seen in background.

This is the same tree clicked from a different angle.

This is from the main building terrace.

This one is one of my favourite clicked just outside the BE ETC classroom.

This is a beautiful rainbow seen across the GEC Sky. Its clicked just outside the library. I found this picture on Internet.

I hope you will admire the natural beauty of my college.

Yours,

Pranav

Spelling Mistakes

Yippee ! :-)

Finally I have my Blog.

One thing is sure that the readers will have to bare with my legendary spellings ( i don't know if I have spelled that correctly :-) ).

But before you all start blaming me have a look at this pictures that proves that I am not the only one out there.

Does any computer expert know what is a Mamory Card ?

This shop in Rajasthan is trying to sell Child Beer.

I am wondering if this one is a spelling mistake or they are just telling us not to be naughty.

But I feel this one is the best. Even I had a great laugh reading it. But before you read it let me specify that this one is NOT FROM MY NOTE BOOK.

Well do keep visiting my blog. Ill be posting more soon.

Enjoy and have fun.

Pranav