When most university teachers look for a relaxed lifestyle after retirement, here is a teacher who is actively championing the cause of Mathematics post in his evening years.
Tamraparni Venkatesh, who retired as a professor from the department of Mathematics in Rani Channamma University has set up a charitable institute to popularise Mathematics and to train young people in advanced trends in that field.
The Mathematical Science Institute in Belagavi that he set up along with his friends in 2002, is completing 20 years in organising seminars and workshops, celebrating events related to eminent Mathematicians and holding academic sessions and graduate research programmes for doctoral and post doctoral fellows. “MSIB has organised several workshops in schools to remove the fear of mathematics by showing that it can be fun and easy, if they take an interest,’’ said Prof. Venkatesh.
