I want to discuss the 'idea behind the famous Chinese Remainder Theorem. Let us leave the jargon and start our exploration by a problem. Find a number that leaves the remainder 1, when divided by 5, 7 and 13. Clearly, such a number can be found by trial. A stupid method is to check out […]
Indian Statistical Institute (I.S.I.), Chennai Mathematical Institute (C.M.I.) and Institute of Mathematics and Application (I.M.A.) can be regarded as three Indian institutions that provided world class mathematics course at undergraduate level. The B.Stat Course at I.S.I. is also world famous. The courses at C.M.I. and I.M.A. have computer science as second major. Each of these […]