TO INFINITY AND BEYOND

  Some facts about Algebra Algebra is derived from the Arabic word Al-jabr, which means the reunion of broken parts. Until the 16th century, there were only two subfields of mathematics: geometry and arithmetic. Fields, rings, and groups of abstractions are all studied as part of algebraic studies. Engineering, science, mathematics, economics, and medicine all use elementary algebra. Professional mathematicians are interested in studying abstract algebra as the subject is part of advanced mathematics. Mathematicians who study algebra are known as Algebraists.

 VISIT TO EGMORE MUSEUM The  Government Museum, Chennai , or the  Madras Museum , is a  museum  of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of  Egmore  in  Chennai ,  India . Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in  India  after the  Indian Museum  in  Kolkata . It is particularly rich in archaeological and numismatic collections. It has the largest collection of  Roman  antiquities outside  Europe . Among them, the colossal Museum Theatre is one of the most impressive.   The National Art Gallery  is also present in the museum premises. Built in  Indo-Saracenic  style, it houses rare European and Asian painting of renowned artists, including that of Raja Ravi Varma .  It had 0.6 million visitors in 2018. It has the richest collections of bronze idols, 500 of them dating to 1000 BCE, in Asia.

VISIT TO BOOK FAIR  The annual Chennai Book Fair, also known as the Madras Book Fair, takes place in Chennai for around three weeks in the month of January, along with the New Year and Pongal celebration. The Chennai Book Fair is considered to be the second largest book fair in the country. This expo features participation from all significant Tamil and English publishing firms and is regarded as a significant occasion in Chennai's cultural calendar. Every year, the book fair attracts more than 600 stalls of books piled up for the exhibition.

 INVENTION OF ZERO The concept of zero has not always been around, however, the introduction of zero bought a lot of changes not only in math but also in the general life of people. Zero has so many different names, for example, ‘null’, ‘nil’, ‘0’ as a digit, ‘sunya’ in Sanskrit, and so on. It is fascinating how the origin of zero bought changed and now it is used as a prime digit in mathematics. Before learning about the modern zero, let’s learn about the origin of zero in India,   Origin of Zero in India The origin of zero in India came from a well-known astronomer and mathematician of his time, Aryabhatta. The well-known scientist used zero as a placeholder number. In the 5th century, Aryabhatta introduced zero in the decimal  number system  and hence, introduced it in mathematics. After Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta described rules for zero in the 7th century. The most evident proof of the origin of zero in mathematics is mentioned in the oldest manuscript of India known as the ‘Bakshali

 KING OF INDIAN MATHEMATICS Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan , (born December 22, 1887,  Erode , India—died April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam), Indian mathematician whose contributions to the  theory of numbers  include pioneering discoveries of the properties of the  partition  function. When he was 15 years old, he obtained a copy of George Shoobridge Carr’s  Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics,  2 vol. (1880–86). This collection of thousands of  theorems , many presented with only the briefest of proofs and with no material newer than 1860, aroused his genius. Having verified the results in Carr’s book, Ramanujan went beyond it, developing his own theorems and ideas.

  LIBRARY STOCK REGISTER MAINTENACE. The Library Accession Register is a record of all books taken in to the School Library. The information recorded about each book includes: accession number; date received; title, author and publication details; cost; the source of the volume, i.e. the donor of the work or the fund out of which it was purchased; the call number assigned to the work; and the date on which it was transferred, lost or otherwise disposed of.