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Updated On: 19 July, 2010 07:03 AM IST | | The Guide Team
That sounds like the perfect example of a paradox. But the guys at Prithvi Theatre have plans on making the daunting subject enjoyable
That sounds like the perfect example of a paradox. But the guys at Prithvi Theatre have plans on making the daunting subject enjoyable
The creative team at Prithvi Theatre are mighty excited about getting UK-based theatre group Complicite's A Disappearing Number, a play on the collaboration between mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and Cambridge university don GH Hardy.
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Until now, the team has been organising maths-related talks, readings and film screenings. From today onwards, they will troop around city schools and colleges with the Maths Mela.
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| Prithvi Theatre is all decked up for the Maths Month. |
The Mela will be a day-long affair open to all. It will include the Maths Lab, which is a laboratory of mathematical games and puzzles for students and teachers set up by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE).
There will be workshops, reading and visual displays by members of PEN, live performances such as juggling, performed readings, magic, music and interactive lecture-demonstrations to encourage students to learn maths. Apartu00a0 from that, there will also be an exhibition of exciting stories about the math-genius Ramanujan.
Two films by Professor Marcus du Sautoy, the maths advisor for A Disappearing Number, will be the highlight of the Mela.
"Activities will differ in various institutions and there are chances that we will add to the list of activities because we're still in the process of finalising the schedules," said Sameera Iyengar, director of Prithvi Theatre.
Maths Mela Schedule
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