Maths can be fun if students discover it themselves: Fields Medal winner
TNN | Updated: Jan 7, 2018, 09:39 IST
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BENGALURU: Numbers have always been the best friend of Manjul Bhargava, a Canadian-American mathematician who has won the Fields Medal, known as the mathematician's Nobel Prize. Speaking to TOI on the sidelines of the ICTS at Ten event, the maths professor from Princeton University cracks the code on why mathematics is different for a researcher when compared to a student. According to Bhargava, mathematics gets an altogether different look when poetry, history and more are weaved into it.
You approach mathematics from an artistic perspective. How hard is it to bridge the gap between maths and fun?
Most mathematicians think of their works as art rather than science. Any pure mathematician would be delighted if they hear their work is elegant or beautiful. But the problem is that today's kids are unable to look at the subject this way. I was lucky to learn maths on my own. My mother was a mathematician who always asked me to figure out problems in the subject by myself. This was how I started perceiving the subject as fun.
