Welcome to the Mumbai Math Circle

Mathematics is unfortunately seen by most students only as a subject to be studied for examinations, or as a tool for solving some problems perhaps, and even those students with an interest in Mathematics do not have a platform to discuss interesting examples and results with experts or other like-minded students.

With this background, we would like to start a “Maths Circle”, with an aim to nurture and mentor students interested in Mathematical Sciences. (This is an inspired by several successful Mathematics Clubs or Circles like the Berkeley Math Circle or the Russian and European Math Circles.) It is a forum to learn and discuss Mathematics without being limited for any particular exam purpose. We hope to target bright high school and undergraduate students with an aptitude and natural interest in Mathematical Sciences (This may not correlate with school/board examination performance!).

High school students, college students, undergraduate students and Mathematics teachers (from schools or colleges) are welcome to attend any session. All sessions are FREE. Online registration may be required for all upcoming sessions.

We are restarting Mumbai Math Circle Online via ZOOM. Registration will be required and details will be posted on 1st December 2020. Registration will be free. We will resume sessions in St Xaviers College once it is safe to do so.
Online Registration Link

(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewsvYJaFP8TTXTKoQBohL0E3GbfIK5LUu0gDtOMvlVFE0wTA/viewform?usp=sf_link ).

We are planning to start with a short course in Number Theory. It will be a pilot run. Depending on the response we will continue online. The first lecture will be from 15:00 to 16:30 on December 19th, 2020.

We will have 4 Lectures in Number Theory. It will be assumed that the participant is interested in Mathematics and has an understanding of Class 9 and Class 10 NCERT level books. The Lecture plan is as follows.

Lecture 1: [15:00 -- 16:30, 19 december 2020] Prime numbers. (Number of primes, primes of the type 4n+3, 4n+1, inverse sum of primes etc.) (Amitava Bhattacharya, TIFR)

Lecture 2: [15:00-- 16:30, 2 Jan 2021] Chinese remainder theorem and related results. (Amitava Bhattacharya, TIFR)

Lecture 3: [16 Jan 2021] Quadratic reciprocity theorem. (TBA)

Lecture 4: [30 Jan 2021] Special talk on Number Theory. (TBA)