Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (T.K.Prasad)

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering | Wright State University

Assorted Bookmarks

• Singular Value Decomposition
  
  • Gems from Salvador Dali
• HowStuffWorks

  • To observe ISS and Satellites

  • A.Word.A.Day
• Temples of India
  
• Trip through the Universe          

• Interesting Stuff:   Universe, Supernova, Evolution, Illusion, Relativity, ..., DNA, Proteins, Brain, Life,...

• Interesting Books:

  • Oliver Sacks: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

  • Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

  • Richard P. Feynman: Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

  • George Gamow: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

  • George Gamow: Mr Tompkins in Paperback

  • George Gamow: Gravity

  • Steven Weinberg: The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe

  • Rudolf Kippenhahn: 100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars

  • Terence Dickinson: Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners

  • Stan / Jan Berenstain: Berenstain Bears Draw-It! Drawing Lessons

  • Douglas R. Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

  • Ernest Nagel and James Newman: Godel's Proof

  • Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Raymond Smullyan: To Mock a Mockingbird

  • Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind

  • Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

  • Jacob T. Schwartz: Relativity in Illustrations

  • Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

  • Laura Numeroff: If you give a pig a pancake

  • Sir Oliver Lodges: Pioneers of Science

  • Douglas Comer: The Internet Book

  • James D. Watson: The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
  • Francis Crick: What Mad Pursuit : A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter: Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
  • Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
  • Charles Wheelen: Naked Economics
  • Charles Wheelen: Naked Statistics
  • Leonard Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
  • Atul Gawande: Being Mortal
  • Walter Isaacson: The Code Breaker
    

• Favorite TV Shows   The Honeymooners, Cheers, Frasier, Everybody loves Raymond, The Big Bang Theory, ..., Jeopardy, ..., The Daily Show, ..., Late Night Shows of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, ...

• Vedic Mathematics for Kids (Perpetually Under Construction!) (doc)
  

  • Abstraction-Numerals

  • Zero-Positional-System

  • Arithmetic Operations I

  • Arithmetic Operations II

  • Divisibility

  • Division

  • DigitalRoots

  • Arithmetic Operations Revisited

  • Primes

  • Various Numbers: Whole to Complex

  (Disclaimer: Anything beyond kids' level is homework for their parents!)

   

• Astronomy for Kids (Perpetually Under Construction!)

  • Space Time Coordinates

  • Looking at the Sky

  • Solar System

  • Constellations

  • Star Properties

  • Evolution of Stars

   

• Informal Lectures on First-Order Logic  (large scans in pdf > 150MB)

  • Gentle Introduction to Models for Knowledge Representers

  • First-Order Logic, Godel Theorems, Circumscription

  • Douglas Hofstadter's Genetic Code
    

• Academic Trivia

• My Erdos number was 4 through several paths:
  
   Haripriyan Hampapuram ->  Michael Fredman -> { Janos Komlos, Miklos Ajtai, Endre Szemeredi }
  -> Paul Erdos
  V. S. Lakshmanan -> C. E. Veni Madhavan -> Renu C. Laskar -> Paul Erdos
• Now my Erdos number is 3 via Pascal Hitzler -> Anthony B. Evans -> Paul Erdos.
   
• My academic lineage (from student to doctoral advisor) runs as follows:
  
  Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan -> { Michael Kifer, David Warren }
  -> { Catriel Beeri, Joyce Friedman, William Rounds } -> { Eli Shamir, Hao Wang, Dana Scott } ->
  { Shmuel Egmon, Willard Quine, Alonzo Church } -> {Szolem Mandelbrojt, Alfred Whitehead, Oswald Veblen } -> { Jaques Hadamard, Edward Routh , E. H. Moore } -> { B. Russell, C. Emile Pickard, Jules Tannery, H. A. Newton} -> { Charles Hermite, Eugene-Charles Catalan, Michael Chasles } -> { Joseph Loiuville, Simeon Poisson, Louis Thenard } -> Joseph Lagrange -> Leonhard Euler -> Johann Bernoulli -> Jacob Bernoulli -> Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz