Lesser Known Jewels by A R Rahman (Hindi) Unknown

Fine nuances. Sheer diversity. Wild imaginations. Layered subtlety. Originality combined with pure genius. Invoking unknown emotions. Rahman's music is all about possibility, every possibility. You just can't understand how one can be so consistent. Well, I can't understand. The good thing is that it is okay if I don't understand. You don't understand beauty. You just appreciate it. You just wonder about it. You just try to get lost in it. Such is the magic of A R Rahman's music.

Legend of A R Rahman is always under appreciated. There are songs which are not all that famous. You don't hear those songs on televisions, FM channels or in a cafe. Very few people have those songs in their collections. No, they aren't lost. They are just less known or under-appreciated

Actually there are many songs which are relatively less known but I haven't tried to list them all. Besides, I listed down only Hindi songs for simple reason that I don't have any idea of audiences of other language. 

Mathematical Resources from Internet Unknown

Indeed, much of Newton’s intellectual development can be attributed to this tension between rationalism and mysticism. At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what there was in it.” He read it until he came to an illustration which he could not understand, because he was of ignorant of trigonometry. So he purchased a book on trigonometry but soon found himself unable to follow the geometrical arguments. So he found a copy of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry’, and began to read. Two years later he invented the differential calculus.

- An excerpt from ‘Cosmos’ by Carl Sagan

We take up something-we know it is finite; but as soon as we begin to analyze it, it leads us beyond our reason, and we never find an end to all its qualities, its possibilities, its power, its relations. It has become infinite.

- Swami Vivekananda

"Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician".

- David Hilbert's response upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry.

  

I have compiled a list of websites which may be used as resources for Mathematics. The compilation is not exhaustive for the obvious reason that Internet is full of thousands of such websites. Besides, I haven’t tried to categorize those websites. Some of the websites listed below also contain resources for topics not related to Mathematics, though you may find them useful anyway.

Atheism, Charity and Richard Dawkins Unknown

So, I came across an article written by Richard Dawkins. It is titled, “Atheists are the most generous—even without heavenly reward!” In this article, Dawkins seeks to ‘establish’ that atheists are more generous when it comes to donating money for charity. Given that it is written by Richard Dawkins, one must think he has arrived at this conclusion after vigorous reasoning and solid evidences. While making his case, he mentioned some ‘facts’. In these facts, he mentioned about Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, George Soros and Andrew Carnegie. At the time of reading this article, I was actually unaware of their religious inclinations. Out of curiosity, I searched through internet. I found that:

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are agnostics. (here)

Melinda Gates is Roman Catholic (here)

Andrew Carnegie was, in later part of his life, had strong religious inclinations. (here)