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physics.hist-ph2017
Comets, historical records and vedic literature
Patrick Das Gupta
A verse in book I of Rigveda mentions a cosmic tree with rope-like aerial roots held up in the sky. Such an imagery might have ensued from the appearance of a comet having `tree st…
physics.hist-ph2015
Mathemagical 2014 - An Indian Perspective
Patrick Das Gupta
Mathematics is probably the only subject that can be classified both as art as well as science - former, because it is not constrained by the real world and latter because it is a…
physics.hist-ph2011★ 1 cited
S. Chandrasekhar: White Dwarfs, ion,.., Black holes, Gravitational waves
Patrick Das Gupta
This is a concise review, addressed to undergraduate students, of S. Chandrasekhar's oeuvre in astrophysics, ranging from his early studies on white dwarfs using relativistic quant…