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Also known as Subhash C. Kak

Indian computer scientist

Person · Open Library

Born
1947
Works
26

Top works

  • Patanjali and cognitive science
  • Computing science in ancient India
  • Computing science in ancient India
  • The Architecture of Knowledge
  • The astronomical code of the Ṛgveda

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Active from
1967
Active to
1969

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.
  • Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.
  • The essence of the Vedas is a narrative on who the experiencing self is. Ordinary science informs us of the relationships between objects and also their transformations. But the Vedas say that this ordinary science leaves out the self who observes these objects.
  • Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets.
  • The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.
  • What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide?

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Key facts

Born
Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir , British India
Alma mater
NIT Srinagar , IIT Delhi
Discipline
Computer Science
Sub discipline
Cryptography Quantum cryptography Quantum information History of science
Institutions
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Notable works
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization
Notable ideas
Instantaneously trained neural networks

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
British Raj
Place of birth
Srinagar
Occupation
physicist
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
Kashmiri
Religion
Hinduism
Doctoral advisor
Pavaguda V. Indiresan
Image
Subhash Kak at Single Photon Workshop, Geneva, July 2015.jpg
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date of birth
1947-03-26
Commons category
Subhash Kak
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WikiProject Mathematics
name in native language
Subhash Chandra Kak
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Encyclopedic overview

Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and Hindutva historical revisionist. He is the Regents Professor of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).

Kak has published on the history of science, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics. Kak has also published on archaeoastronomy, and advocated the idea of Indigenous Aryans. Many scholars have rejected his theories on these topics in entirety, and his writings have been heavily criticized.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Subhash Kak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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