Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (T.K.Prasad)

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering | Wright State University

Assorted Bookmarks

• Singular Value Decomposition
  • Gems from Escher
  • Gems from Salvador Dali
• HowStuffWorks

  • To observe ISS and Satellites

  • A.Word.A.Day
• Temples of India
  • Eric Weisstein Homepage
• Trip through the Universe
• Astronomy  
  

  • The Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs                
   

• Interesting Stuff:   Universe, Supernova, Evolution, Illusion, Relativity, ..., DNA, Proteins, Brain, Life,...

• Interesting Books:

  • Oliver Sacks: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

  • Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

  • Richard P. Feynman: Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

  • George Gamow: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science

  • George Gamow: Mr Tompkins in Paperback

  • George Gamow: Gravity

  • Steven Weinberg: The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe

  • Rudolf Kippenhahn: 100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars

  • Terence Dickinson: Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners

  • Stan / Jan Berenstain: Berenstain Bears Draw-It! Drawing Lessons

  • Douglas R. Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

  • Ernest Nagel and James Newman: Godel's Proof

  • Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Raymond Smullyan: To Mock a Mockingbird

  • Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind

  • Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

  • Jacob T. Schwartz: Relativity in Illustrations

  • Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

  • Laura Numeroff: If you give a pig a pancake

  • Sir Oliver Lodges: Pioneers of Science

  • Douglas Comer: The Internet Book

  • James D. Watson: The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
  • Francis Crick: What Mad Pursuit : A Personal View of Scientific Discovery
  • Douglas R. Hofstadter: Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
  • Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
  • Charles Wheelen: Naked Economics
  • Charles Wheelen: Naked Statistics
  • Leonard Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
  • Atul Gawande: Being Mortal
  • Walter Isaacson: The Code Breaker
    

• Favorite TV Shows   The Honeymooners, Cheers, Frasier, Everybody loves Raymond, The Big Bang Theory, ..., Jeopardy, ..., The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Colbert Report, ...

• Vedic Mathematics for Kids (Perpetually Under Construction!) (doc)
  

  • Abstraction-Numerals

  • Zero-Positional-System

  • Arithmetic Operations I

  • Arithmetic Operations II

  • Divisibility

  • Division

  • DigitalRoots

  • Arithmetic Operations Revisited

  • Primes

  • Various Numbers: Whole to Complex

  (Disclaimer: Anything beyond kids' level is homework for their parents!)

   

• Astronomy for Kids (Perpetually Under Construction!)

  • Space Time Coordinates

  • Looking at the Sky

  • Solar System

  • Constellations

  • Star Properties

  • Evolution of Stars

   

• Informal Lectures on First-Order Logic  (large scans in pdf > 150MB)

  • Gentle Introduction to Models for Knowledge Representers

  • First-Order Logic, Godel Theorems, Circumscription

  • Douglas Hofstadter's Genetic Code
    

• Academic Trivia

• My Erdos number was 4 through several paths:
  
   Haripriyan Hampapuram ->  Michael Fredman -> { Janos Komlos, Miklos Ajtai, Endre Szemeredi }
  -> Paul Erdos
  V. S. Lakshmanan -> C. E. Veni Madhavan -> Renu C. Laskar -> Paul Erdos
• Now my Erdos number is 3 via Pascal Hitzler -> Anthony B. Evans -> Paul Erdos.
   
• My academic lineage (from student to doctoral advisor) runs as follows:
  
  Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan -> { Michael Kifer, David Warren }
  -> { Catriel Beeri, Joyce Friedman, William Rounds } -> { Eli Shamir, Hao Wang, Dana Scott } ->
  { Shmuel Egmon, Willard Quine, Alonzo Church } -> {Szolem Mandelbrojt, Alfred Whitehead, Oswald Veblen } -> { Jaques Hadamard, Edward Routh , E. H. Moore } -> { B. Russell, C. Emile Pickard, Jules Tannery, H. A. Newton} -> { Charles Hermite, Eugene-Charles Catalan, Michael Chasles } -> { Joseph Loiuville, Simeon Poisson, Louis Thenard } -> Joseph Lagrange -> Leonhard Euler -> Johann Bernoulli -> Jacob Bernoulli -> Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz