Alternative Sciences : creativity and authenticity in two Indian scientists

Nandy, Ashis

Alternative Sciences : creativity and authenticity in two Indian scientists / Ashis Nandy - 2nd Edition (Oxford India Paperbacks) - New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2001 - 176 p.

This work is a biographical sketch of the lives of two celebrated Indian scientists, J.C. Bose, the plant physiologist, and Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest untrained mathematical geniuses the world has ever known. Nandy discusses the extent to which the colonial context within which these two men worked impinged on the calibre and nature of their research.

9780195655285


Biography
Scientists, Science, India
Science and Civilization

509.54 NAN

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