Friday, October 26, 2007

Interesting math

I like my math-modeling course :-). It is being taught by an excellent professor namely "Dr Jay Lee"- http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/fac_staff/faculty/lee.php. Majority of my batchmates don't understand what he teaches but I simply adore this course. Never earlier has been my liking for a Mathematics course been stronger than this time. He is taking optimization classes these days and I came across two very interesting things.

I got to know that the famous movie "Good will hunting" is based on the story of George Dantzig- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig.
We were taught a method known as Karmarkar's algorithm for Linear programming. I got fascinated by this indian name and googled for it when I came across more interesting things-alma-mater! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Karmarkar.

These are really interesting sites.Check them out!

2 comments:

onkar said...

its always nice to read other people's blog.. may be I will start as you started if and when I get into a graduate school..

Swati said...

:D, your profile is not available :(