IIT Mandi, HIMCOSTE celebrate National Mathematics Day

 National Mathematics Day: More than 300 students from Classes 6 to 12 and teachers participated in the celebration.

To mark the birth anniversary of mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi through its Center for Continuing Education celebrated the National Mathematics Day 2022 on the campus in collaboration with Himachal Pradesh Council for Science, Technology & Environment (HIMCOSTE). More than 300 school students from Classes 6 to 12 and teachers participated in the celebration.  

Satpal Dhiman, Additional Secretary, Environment Science and Technology, and Joint Member Secretary, HIMCOSTE, graced the event as the chief guest. The aim of the programme was to instil scientific temperament among students and teachers and to create awareness among them to communicate these subjects in an easy and interesting manner to the students. 

Satpal Dhiman said, “Posters prepared by the School of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences are very informative and needs to be circulated to all the schools in the state. Many of them depicts the journey and history of mathematics in India. Like the great Indian Mathematician Srinivas Ramanujam, the students should also identify their passion, work hard and nothing shall remain unachievable to them.” 

HIMCOSTE organises such programmes in all 12 districts of Himachal Pradesh from December 22 to February 28 on Mathematics Day and Science Day every year to popularise mathematics and science subjects among teachers and students all over the state.  

Prof Laxmidhar Behera, Director, IIT Mandi, said, “Georg Cantor and David Hilbert, the two mathematicians from west, have done a lot of research on infinity even before infinity was not considered a mathematical object. But in India mathematics was way more advanced in the Vedic times in Vedanta Mathematics Infinity is called Anant and Achintya.” 

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