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Arithmetic, Geometry, and Coding Theory: Homage to Gilles Lachaud
Sudhir R. Ghorpade, Christophe Ritzenthaler, François Rodier +1
We give an overview of several of the mathematical works of Gilles Lachaud and provide a historical context. This is interspersed with some personal anecdotes highlighting many fac…
The Role of History in Learning and Teaching Mathematics: A Personal Perspective
Sudhir R. Ghorpade
This is a slightly revised version of the Presidential address (General) delivered at the 84th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society held at Jammu, India during Nove…
A Geometric Approach to Saddle Points of Surfaces
Sudhir R. Ghorpade, Balmohan V. Limaye
We outline an alternative approach to the geometric notion of a saddle point for real-valued functions of two variables. It is argued that this is more natural compared to the usua…
Sylvester's Minorant Criterion, Lagrange-Beltrami Identity, and Nonnegative Definiteness
Sudhir R. Ghorpade, Balmohan V. Limaye
We consider the characterizations of positive definite as well as nonnegative definite quadratic forms in terms of the principal minors of the associated symmetric matrix. We brief…