The
mathematicians,
“Mathematics
may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about,
nor whether what we are saying is true.” -- Bertrand Russell
The world we
live is totally different without mathematics. What.What I like about mathematics is
there are no in-between answers; it’s always either right or wrong. When the
life is full of uncertainties at least we have something to rely on.
Carl
Friedrich Gauss, who was famous as the prince of the mathematics defined
mathematics as the “Queen of the all science “.We all know it’s not easy to deal with a queen, not a queen
even with a lady boss.
However
mathematics is a very interesting thing to learn, we all may be not good in mathematics,
but it does not matter. In my life I have a known two mathematicians. The first
one is my best friend “Sha….”
Can anyone guess who is SHA.?.
“Sha” is not
her full name, since she did not like to expose better not to tell her full
name. Actually I met her in my Advanced level class and we are sharing both
happy and sad moments over 15 years now. Only one thing I know about “Sha”
during the advanced level class she always knew the answer without spending
half of the time to get it by us. Also she had thinnest hand writing; she
always skipped several steps and achieved the correct answer.
I was actually
other way round I had large hand writing and I am trying to get the correct
answer by going through several lengthy methods. Most cases I did not get the
correct answer. When we doing trigonometry she was a fastest student in the
class. When she is solving it’s like writing a poem, I guess that why now she
is doing her PHD and I am worrying about proportions of buildings.
She is my best
friend; when I was in hospital she is the one stay besides me.She had very
strong shoulder where I cry at any time more than that she is a good teacher,
out of all she is a good mathematician. These days she is battling with some
equation related to congestion of passenger movement in airport terminal which
I don’t understand.
Though my
friend “Sha “is good at mathematics she is not really good in day today life.
Often she forgets to get balance form the cashiers .She never tried driving
manual vehicles even the auto vehicles
to much effort to end the journey carefully.
She has the ultimate prefers
colors and she does not even stay close by some colors. But.But she is a very good
fan of Bollywood movies. It’s unbelievable my best friend is a vegetarian, with
no particular reasons. In her wardrobes she has all creams, face washes, etc
but she is not using any of it as a habit, however she is a great believer of
her horoscope, very recently she told that horoscope says that driving is not
good and she is purposely avoiding driving these days.
The other
mathematician I know is Dr. Wickramabhahu Karunaratne, He obtained his PHD in
Electrical engineering with a first class honor and was a lecture in maths
department in University of Peradeniya .But in 1982. He is among very few Sri
Lankans who won the commonwealth scholar in Cambridge. In 1978 he was arrested
in Kandy for attempting to put up protest slogans against the President (J.R Jayawardena )prior to his visit to Kandy
in 1978. He was released without charge after a few months of detention, and
the University of Peradeniya which suspended him from service soon after his
arrest reinstated him after a rather delayed inquiry. He was forced to leave
the University after he collected his back pay. He was reinstated by Cabinet
decision in 2001but was not allowed by the university.
But Today
the same UNP government got a special cabinet approval corrected their own
mistakes by the nephew of ex-President J.R. Jayawardena.Now Dr. Wickramabhahu
Karunaratne in his early 70 s .
Though he
was actively in politics he never got selected to the parliament, In Sri Lanka
even Upeksha Swarnamale got selected by people of Gampaha district. Gampaha
district consider as the highest literacy level in the Sri Lanka. I don’t know what
they read exactly.
However Dr
.Wickramabhahu Karunaratne got little more than
7000 votes in 2010 presidential election from whole country.2010
election was a battle with war heroes,Personally I did not want a war hero as a
president so I did not vote any of them. So I vote to Dr Wickramabhahu
Karunaratne knowing that he won’t be the president in 2010.Over this decisions
I remember some said to me I am lunatic. But still today I don’t worry about my
vote, at least in Sir Lanka there are nearly 7000 people who have genuine
understanding about Dr.Wickarambhau Karunaratne as a politician.
During the
last period of Sri Lankans civil war Dr.Wickramabahu Karunaratne was among the
hatred Sinhalese by the majority of Sinhalese Buddhist. The reason was his
outspoken ideas on between civilians of both parties. Some says he is the”
Sinhalese TIGER”. As far as I knew he is not an admires of terrorists .I will
conclude this with one of statement “Both LTTE and the JVP are like twin
brothers or it’s like the two sides of the same coin”
