Natural Geometry of Natural Numbers
How does this sound? The numbers 18 and 30 together looks like a chair. The Natural Geometry of Natural Numbers is something that is never advertised, rarely talked about. Just feel how they feel! Let’s revise some ideas and concepts to understand the...
Dudeney Puzzle: A Tale from Pythagoras to Dehn – Part II
(Remember the Dudeney puzzle introduced in the last post. We have ended with the question “Why four?”…We will be revealing the reason in this post.) Obviously, by the way, we have given the algorithm, there is an upper bound to the number of pieces...
A Dream, An IMO 2018 Problem and A Why
Cheenta, with the zeal of a child, has a dream of training a perfect IMO team someday in the recent future. Also, the day, 22nd December is very special to Mathematics, which saw the birth of Ramanujan and is a very romantic day for every math-loving person. With that...
2016 ISI Objective Solution Problem 1
Problem The polynomial \(x^7+x^2+1\) is divisible by (A) \(x^5-x^4+x^2-x+1\) (B) \(x^5-x^4+x^2+1\) (C) \(x^5+x^4+x^2+x+1\) (D) \(x^5-x^4+x^2+x+1\) . Also Visit: I.S.I. & C.M.I Entrance Program Understanding the Problem: The problem is easy...Srijit Mukherjee
Srijit Mukherjee is pursuing B.Stat at I.S.I. Kolkata. He is a faculty and admin at Cheenta.