Subhash Kak's Arrival and Exile is a collection of poems on journeys, memories, and loss. While some of the journeys are to known places, others are stops in the landscapes of imagination. The circles of memory in the poems speak of love and estrangement, beauty and solitude, and arrival at destination followed by exile.
Subhash Kak's Arrival and Exile is a collection of poems on journeys, memories, and loss. While some of the journeys are to known places, others are s...
The material in this book presents an introduction to the Indian contributions to the science of computing. The book starts with an overview of Indian science. The next three chapters deal with the description of binary numbers, the Katapayadi notation and its equivalence to hashing that is used in computer systems, and the Panini-Backus form to describe a high-level computer language based on the ideas of the great grammarian Panini. The next two chapters describe some technical aspects of Panini's grammar and Indian logic. The Paninian structure (5th century BCE) has been shown to be...
The material in this book presents an introduction to the Indian contributions to the science of computing. The book starts with an overview of Indian...
Matter and Mindis a new translation of the nearly 2,500-year oldVaisheshika Sutra of Kanada together with an introductoryessay and acommentary. TheVaisheshika Sutrais one of the mostimportant texts in the history ofscience that has not received the attention it deserves. It presents an ontology of reality that includes four kinds of fundamental atoms, two of which have mass and two that do not, as well as minds and consciousness. It also presents symmetry principles that it uses to infer properties of the basic atoms.Kanada's laws of motion are nearly identical to those of Newton."
Matter and Mindis a new translation of the nearly 2,500-year oldVaisheshika Sutra of Kanada together with an introductoryessay and acommentary. TheVai...
The Circle of Memorycovers a broad canvas: Subhash Kak's childhood in Kashmir, his scientific career in India and the United States, andvignettes of several prominent scholars.In addition to many personal anecdotes about his family and colleagues, it describes how his research that began with computer science came to embrace neural networks, quantum theory, history of science and the arts. It presents accounts of his discoveries in artificial intelligence, quantum theory, and Vedic astronomy, and how he became a part of a new movement trying to develop a science of consciousness."
The Circle of Memorycovers a broad canvas: Subhash Kak's childhood in Kashmir, his scientific career in India and the United States, andvignettes of s...
