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A brief history on Nikola Tesla

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 Mr. Charles Batchelor wrote a letter of recommendation to Edison stating- “I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man.” Some called him a ‘Mad Scientist’ other called him an ‘Electrical Wizard’. But behind the curtain he is one of the unacknowledged inventor who used to dream future and then ‘practically’ invent them in his laboratory. Yes, he was Nikola Tesla. He was born on 10 July 1856 in Austria (present day Croatia). It is said that he was born late night when thunderstorm roar in the sky than at that moment his mother claimed that he will be the child of light. The childhood of this genius was not something extraordinary. He was a fun loving kid but usually fall sick. In his book “My Invention” he had mentioned many of his childhood exploration. His brother, Dane Tesla whom he consider to be an extraordinary gifted, died when Tesla was seven years old. Then being the only son alive his parents (father in general) always expected him to become l...

A brief History on Ramanujan

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                                                                               “Dear Sir, I beg to introduce myself to you as a clerk in the Accounts Department of the Port Trust Office  at Madras... I am now about 23 years of age… I have had no University education…” Those were his initial sentence from his first letter to one of the professor of mathematics in Cambridge University, London. Who might have thought that later their partnership will be one of the most fruitful in the history of Mathematics.  Ramanujan, Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan. Who was he? Why (majority Indians) haven’t heard or being taught about him? Even I didn’t know until I was in University when one of my friend, Ajay, suggested me a movie named- "The man who knew Infinity". I have done my Higher Secondary...