A great mathematician legend from Bihar who worked for NASA in landing of first man on moon and also achieved breakthrough in mathematics died yesterday. Suffering from schizophrenia he left academics and returned to his village Bhojpur. No one was there to look after him. He just solve problems regularly and used to teach some poor kids. Although living in poor conditions, he never complained. No one came from any authority to atleast check on him.It just feels like he had been used and thrown . He died lying on a stretcher outside hospital. No ambulance or any service was provided by government . This is truly nadir of our society.
May his soul rest in peace. A true inspiration- Vashishtha Narayan singh
@Warhorse Thanks for posting it. Great, if very sad, story.
Similarly to what happened to Alan Turing, lead to suicide by harassment over his sexual orientation. A huge loss.
@design_RG @Warhorse These are both tragic stories of these brilliant mathematicians and people who should be celebrated as heroes. Let's always look forward and work hard towards a society where we support and take care of each other!
@salad_bar_breath @Warhorse I am also a great fan of Robert Oppenheimer.
Nothwitstanding his work and leadership in the atomic weapons research programme, which eneded up criminally wiping out two Japanese cities, he comprehended the result and quoted a very proper Hindu text on seeing the first test, Trinity.
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
In more detail:
"“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another,” said Oppenheimer when recalling the Trinity test of the Manhattan Project."
@design_RG @salad_bar_breath he can be described as a oxymoron(his invention) I think..
@Warhorse
He was an intellectual, very intelligent and curious man, a great scientist.
He was also a good administrator, leading the Manhattan Project thru the WWII years.
He had regrets on seeing the destrucitve use of their work and research, and started speaking his mind, ended up being investigated as a Communist and I think lost his security clearance.
The next stages of weapons development, the Fusion or Hydrogen bombs, were pushed ahead by other scientists with less qualms about their destructive power, like Leo Szillard.
