(Sorry...Yet Another one..!! :)) )
My friend Kiran reminded me that today's the Birth-anniversary of the great Gauss---& that reminded me to share this CRAZY piece of mail that I had scribbled to my junior friends...!!
Wanted to share it...! :)
Hope you too feel inspired...?
Love,
Mor(e)on rags
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Hi,
Here is a small mail i wrote to MANY people ( but to WHICH i got VERy Little..or NO response !! :-( As Always !! ) about which i would like to know your opinion..!!
I honestly feel that it is ONE of the CRAZIESt mails that ANY Human would ever compose...(with So many Colours, Energy, & Restlesness...!!! )...
And Yet, i Strongly believe that...it( i.e., this mail that i'd written...) shows the TRUE Essence of WHAT it is to INNOVATE...!!! Allva ?!?!
[ allva = Kannada for "isn't it ??" Sorry..! Can't keep my "Native language" from popping out..!! It always has a High priority you see...! ;-)]
What do U feel...?? ( about the incident..& also..well...my CRAZY writing...!!?!? ;) )
Please DO let me know...ONLY if/WHEN u feel like doing...!!
Ok ....Let me Shut up now...!!
THANKS ....Have a great day..& weekend...& X-mas vacations..!!
"r a g h u"
Planet Earth
raghu.ugare@gmail.com
From: Raghu Ugare
To: Raghu M Ugare
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: Something Crazy Raghu wanted to Share with You Today...!!
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I don't want---
(1) ---To Pollute your Official In-box with the kind of mails like below ...
as well as,
(2)---My colorful, dear babies(mails!!) to be Deleted one day (b'coz u r changing ur m/c...or..u r "cleaning out UNWANTED files"...!!
because my Mails are NEVER mere Forwards...somehow i prepare such mails ..adding bit by bit whenever i'm free(Late at Night or Early in the Morning !)
...almost like making an Ocean by using an Ink-filler....drop by Drop..!! :-)
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Something Crazy Raghu wanted to Share with You Today...!!
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Ha ha ! You are free to read it either way u want !!
Something-Crazy, Raghu wanted to share with You...!
or
Something , Crazy-Raghu wanted to share with You...!
Both Are True !! So, you will Be right in Both the cases...!
NOW, that's what i call a Win-Win Situation...! :-)
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Hi !!
I..don't KNOW WHY...but...I suddenly "felt like sharing" an interesting lit'l anecdote with you...!
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And WHENEVER that happens....i feel it VERY hard to (and ALmost IMPOSSIBLE!!) suppress such ideas/thoughts within Me...!! :-(
i..i...MUSSST share it with someone...a friend..a colleague..or ....Believe it or NOT...even an Imaginary person..!
But I'm soo Lucky to have some friends WHo are Kind enough to lend a patient ear to my Crazy ideas/feelings....!
Anyway, Please Ignore it if u are busy... or not interested in it...ok??
Thank U !!
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In elementary school, the great GERMAN Mathematician C.F.Gauss was a very naughty boy (but a very precocious one too!).
One day, his teacher ( some say it was one Mr.J.G.Buttner ) came up with an idea to keep his pupils occupied... and asked ALL of them to calculate the sum 1+ 2+3+ .....+ 100=?
[or say, 1+2+3+.......+1000 ??]
The teacher had perhaps imagined that THIS would keep the unruly crowd of children busy for an hour or so...
But lit'l Gauss just shocked the teacher ( & his classmates too ! ) by showing him the answer ( the correct one too ! umm...i think it's 5050...?!?) in a few moments...!!!
Even at THAT tender age...Gauss looked at the given problem in a way No One Had ever Looked at it Before...
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I don't want to bore u with the details..but if u r interested (How can ppl NOT be interested in my babies(mails!)?!?!)...please see at the end of the mail...
Don't Worry......i'll try to make it As Interesting As Possible..or rather i must say,
"As Interesting (& Simple) As ONLY i Can..!??! Ha ha !! ;-)
Hope u appreciate it & are Inspired by it...!!?!?!
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Like Everybody else, perhaps, He too scribbled it down...BUT He ALONE thought about it in a highly Original way ( read as"CRAZY/Stupid way" for his friends/teachers back then ! )...
That is Why Nature immediately blessed him with a Flash of Great Mathematical insight, which showed him a pattern...and the Key to the problem...!!
I just remembered this anecdote now, b'coz i felt many a time we too ( Atleast me ! ) are STUCK with some problem..absolutely in a dead-stop...with no apparent way out...
But suddenly, out of no where...comes a magical idea...a blinding flash of insight...a Beautiful pattern is discovered...and...voila !!
I suddenly realize with Immense Joy that i have discovered a Wonderful new Pattern, rule, equation, algorithm, POem, Word, etc....!!!
Such moments happen with me occasionally...when i am sitting in the Bus, or walking home ALONE very late at night on a deserted street near our B'lore room...
or when i take a stroll on the terrace looking at the stars...or...when i go walking in a jungle, looking at the trees & birds...
in short, WHEN i AM NOT thinking Deliberately on the Problem that WAS on my Mind...!!
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Oops!!
First of all, I seriously doubt if i have any Mind at all to "store" any Problem ...i'm too stupid & ignorant...So, i must apologize for using the phrase "on My Mind"... !! :)
Sorry !
If at ALL i do have a Mind...then, it is FULL to the brim....with...with....
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Anyway, where was I ???
Haan, all i wanted to convey by this mail was that i somehow feel...(Like Sooooo many others have done in the PAst !)....
that there's a Special component inside the Human Mind...which is INCREDIBLY more Powerful compared to the NOrmal, Logical/Rational thinking part...
...it is capable of providing us with Amazing Intuitive Insights...of showing us Beautiful Hidden Patterns
...allowing us to make discoveries On our own ( may not be Of our own !!
To be Honest, I myself have stumbled upon Mathematical discoveries, which i later realized to be 2000, 3000 years old..right from the Greeks...!!!
i hope ( & wish rather !!) that i'll shortly make a TRULY "BRAND NEW" Discovery...I ALready have sooo many "candidates" for That....in fact, just the day-before-Yesterday...sitting in a home-bound bus...i have discovered some MORE new things regarding Prime Numbers....perhaps, Unproved ( or Unprovable ??!) Conjectures....or Theorems, if they can be proved one day...!!!!
But i've not shared them with the Outer World...perhaps due to my shyness..or my Supreme Confidence---in my Stupidity...!! ;-) :-( Let us C...!! )
....
....But....
...but....we....have to "LET that Happen"....and Not stifle the Child in Us by saying things like "Duh ! What A Crazy idea i got this morning !! I must've Gone mad !!" to ourselves....!!
Remember that....umm..that...
... ALL Innovation is Craziness to begin with...
...ALL Great Ideas from Great People are often laughed Upon....!!
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But it Does take Courage to really Follow ur Crazy ideas/dreams...like Archimedes (supposedly?!)did running in the buff,
screaming "Eureka! Eureka!"...!
But...I for one, AM Never Afraid to Follow my HEART...Whatever may Happen ...!!
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Even if it turns out to be a Wild-Goose Chase IN THE END...I'll laugh at Myself & say :
"Well ! That was a Beautiful Goose indeed ! I learnt some Bird-Watching !!;-) " --my kind of Optimism !!
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I'll Never LET Go of the Dreams of my Heart...!!
And then, i'll just "Let Go" of my self..in pursuing them...!!
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Hmmm...!!
Well then, Let Us see !
Where ALL this Leads Me..?!?!!
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Beautiful lit'l couplet i say !
It uses a poetic element called "Slant Rhyme"...where words do NOT rhyme exactly...but still provide a "sense" of rhyming...
like for example, "feel/need", "soon/fool"...etc...!!
Oh !! Sorry ! I must've been a Poetry professor hundreds of years ago(?!?!)...don't know WHY i'm soo steeped in Poetry nowadays...?!?!
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Take Care & have a great day....And Please....NEVER Cramp your Heart....and Never Stifle the Child in You !!!
Thanks for "listeniing" to Me...!
Love & Best Wishes,
"r a g h u"
Planet Earth...
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* "Even the Truth requires 2 people...one to say it, and one to listen... "
:- Anon.
*" At the touch of Love, Everyone becomes a Poet."
:- Plato
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LAST but NOT the Least....How can RAGHU forget "the Beauty of figures...!?!?" ;-)
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ha ha! P(F)un intended !! ;-)
See?
Perhaps, I'm the First ( & the Last too?!?!) person to crack a pun (& hence poke fun !) on the word pun itself...!! ;-)
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OOps ! Had almost forgotten...! But i NEVER ( or Seldom!) Forget my Promises...!!
As promised, here's my simplified explanation of HOW Gauss "FIGURED it out "...!
[Ha ha ! What a Clever piece of Figur-ative writing...! Sometimes, i feel i should be in the field of Creative Writing....!! ;-) ]
First, He saw that it was a pretty tough problem....
S = 1 + 2 + 3 + .......................+ 100 = ?
He imagined something like :
S = 1 + 2 + 3 + ......................+ 98 + 99 + 100 = ?
"Ummmm.......Gotcha !!", He said !
( My Guess ! He must have uttered something in German...like ..say, "Wunderbar !!"...ha ha !! :-) )
Do u see a pattern above ...?!?!
U see,
Add the pairs of numbers at the extremes...& continue the process inwards...He saw a Peculiar thing ...
1 + 100 = 101
2 + 99 = 101
3 + 98 = 101
4 + 97 = 101
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and so on...
Clearly, lit'l Gauss saw that there were 50 such pairs of numbers , summing to 101
Therefore, he figured out that
S = 50 X 101 = 5050
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A paltry Multiplication, from the Initial Monster of a Sum..!!
What a Beauty !!!!
In fact, i too have exclaimed "Wunderbar!" {"Wonderful" in Deutsch} in my HEART whenever I FEEEEL what He must have felt ...!!! :-)
Exhilarating stuff indeed...!!
Just toooo Beautiful....! :)
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Later on...his lit'l discovery became a formula to find the sum of the first 'n' nos...
S(1 to n) = [n X (n+1)] / 2
(In Gauss' case, the 50 is actually, 100/2...hope u got it..! )
Hope U Liked this Baby of mIne...
PLEASE Excuse me if there are (M!)any Mistakes/typos in it...i can't do touch-typing too...!
People usually have Absolutely NO IDEA as to HOW much of Labour (--Pain) goes ino producing a "baby" like THIS one !! ;-)
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There you go..!
There's My naughty word-play again..!! ;-)
Sorry...
I just Can't HELP it..!!
So...you please HELP yourself to some more..!! ;)
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