Bøger af Tapan Kumar Biswas

The place of mathematics is just after the mother tongue in the world. The words, sentences, and thoughts men use to express their conceptions, debate, and prove themselves logically are used mathematically. Otherwise, everything would seem baseless, pointless, or thoughtless. One whose mathematical conception is clear is good in debates, quizzes, and question-answers. Besides, whatever indigenous people do, folk people do mathematically. One who is weak in mathematics is known as immature; one who can solve all mathematical problems; one who can study future mathematics; one who can guess mathematical and correctly is a great mathematician. The higher mathematics taught in higher studies is practised much more in simple everyday life; the difference is that higher studies are in code language, and the problem is studied theoretically abstractly. That complicated mathematics is practised by the ethnic people practically, through their daily activities, a case. As the legend does not know how complex the mathematics they have been practising is, the highly educated people also keep them from practising this mathematics, proudly propelled by arrogance.

Folk research is a scientific and systematic search for pertinent information on a specific topic. It is an art of scientific investigation. Folk research is a careful investigation through the search for new facts. P.V. Young has defined folk research in the following words: ¿We may define folk research as the systematic method of discovering new facts or verifying old facts, their sequences, inter-relationships, casual explanations and the natural laws which govern them¿. Folk research deals with social phenomena. It studies the behaviour of human beings as members of Folk society and their feelings, responses, and attitudes under different circumstances. Folk research is carried out to discover new facts and to verify the old ones. The object of every science, of course, is the discovery of new facts, relationships, and laws governing the phenomena. But constant verification of the old concepts is also needed, especially in the case of dynamic sciences. Folk research tries to establish a causal connection between various human activities. It is exciting to note whether various complex human activities are being performed.