Development of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in India

Abstract

India is well known in the world for its contribution to the ancient Mathematics and even people agree in different parts of the world that India has done very well in the areas of pure mathematics during contemporary time through the work of researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research at Bombay and large number of universities in different parts of the country. It is true that in contemporary time most of the educational centers of higher education in India mainly focus on pure form of mathematics, Definition, Existence and uniqueness theorems, Lemma and corollaries. Mainly problems are direct/well posed (solution exists which is unique and stable). Illustration of mathematical problems with physical phenomena or processes and interpretation of solution and its visualisation or formulation of physical phenomena in appropriate mathematical concepts are not emphasized in the teaching of pure or applied mathematics.