Introduction to Research - 2021

By KP Mohanan

Do you want to develop your capacity to come up with, critically evaluate, and establish theories and theoretical claims? Learn the foundations on which you can build research abilities!

Representing Positive Integers

By Madhav Kaushish

There is a important distinction to make between numbers and representations of numbers. In this article, we explore various different number representations and their characteristics.

Lunch on 21st December, 2509

By Aditi Ahuja, Rashmi Jejurikar, KP Mohanan and Tara Mohanan

This is the first in a series of dialogues between 15 year old Rafa and his mother Samira. Samira loves asking Rafa tough questions which get him to think.

How to Read Non-Fiction

By KP Mohanan

Are you reading for understanding or reading for knowledge? 
What is the difference between the two?

This article will help you get the most out of what you read.

Thinking Like an Engineer

By Madhav Kaushish

In this episode, I (Madhav) interview Adam Disque, an environmental engineering Masters student at Texas Tech University who earlier served in the US Air Force as a Bio-environmental Engineer.

The Learning Journey of a Linguist

By KP Mohanan

This is the third part of an extended conversation in the Nalanda Series in Ahmedabad University. In this video Professor K P Mohanan is interviewed by Surya Gubbi (student) about his learning journey at MIT.

Transdisciplinary Thinking

By KP Mohanan

There are various ways in which disciplines relate to each other. Transdisciplinarity refers to the common abstractions which cut across disciplines. This includes concepts like justification, structure, and so on.