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Item Details
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ALTERNATIVE SCIENCES
CREATIVITY AND AUTHENTICITY IN TWO INDIAN SCIENTISTS |
| By: |
Ashis Nandy |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195631986 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195631982 |
| Publisher: |
OUP INDIA |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 1995 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Pages: |
166 |
| Description: |
A biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists - J.C. Bose, a plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, an untrained mathematical genius - which explores to what extent the colonial context under which these men worked influenced the calibre and nature of their research. |
| Synopsis: |
This work is a biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists, J.C. Bose, the plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest untrained mathematical geniuses the world has ever known. Nandy discusses the extent to which the colonial context within which these two men worked impinged on the calibre and nature of their research. |
| Publication: |
India |
| Imprint: |
OUP India |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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