EVM hacking

Just a small note on this article. It claims to prove “mathematically” that it is almost impossible that EVMs are hacked in India. Its argument is the following: there are approximately 3002 EVMs in each constituency in India. After the electronic votes are polled, 5 EVMs are selected at random, and the total number of votes

An attempt to understand the Nobel Prize winning Science of 2019

Every year, I would read that Nobel prizes have been awarded to certain distinguished individuals at some of the top research institutes. On further reading, I would realize that their research is almost completely incomprehensible to all but a few people across the world. This year, I have tried to read and blog about their

John Tate’s works

I’ve been sick for a couple of days. So I decided to take the evening off and read random articles on the internet. I chanced upon Milne’s 9 page summary of Tate’s collected works. I was indeed surprised by how comprehensible it was. John Tate passed away recently. Hence, it is only appropriate that one