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Alternative sciences : creativity and authenticity in two Indian scientists /

This book 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 m...

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Main Author: Nandy, Ashis
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : O. U. P, c2001.
Edition:2nd ed.
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