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He is our master : Jesus in the Thought of Swami Prabhupada
Now that steam, electricity, and the printing press have brought into closer communication the different races that inhabit the earth, and have expanded the minds of men, tending to dispel the illusion that God Almighty especially favours any particular people, it is time to proclaim to the world, that if a messenger of God appeared in Judea about nineteen hundred years ago, it is no less true that a messenger from the same God appeared in the quiet town of Navadweep (popularly known as Nadia) in Bengal, some fifteen centuries later. The former is known by the name of Jesus Christ; the latter is known in India by the name of Sree Gauranga, Sree Krishna Chaitanya, and several other names. If wonders attended Jesus, so also they attended Sree Gauranga of Nadia.
The Christians have conferred an inestimable obligation upon those Hindus whose faith has been affected by Western materialism, by presenting Christ to them; and they, as a grateful return, are anxious to present Sree Krishna and Sree Gauranga to the people of the West.
So begins Shishir Kumar Ghose\u27s lengthy biography of Caitanya, published at the turn of the twentieth century
VIEWPOINT: Hinduism and the Academy: Towards a Dialogue Between Scholar and Practitioner
Gupta articlulates a rationale as to why the position of both the academician and the practitioner are necessary for meaningful religious dialog
Output Feedback Invariants
The paper is concerned with the problem of determining a complete set of
invariants for output feedback. Using tools from geometric invariant theory it
is shown that there exists a quasi-projective variety whose points parameterize
the output feedback orbits in a unique way. If the McMillan degree ,
the product of number of inputs and number of outputs, then it is shown that in
the closure of every feedback orbit there is exactly one nondegenerate system.Comment: 15 page
Degree of the generalized Pl\"ucker embedding of a Quot scheme and Quantum cohomology
We compute the degree of the generalized Pl\"ucker embedding of a
Quot scheme over \PP^1. The space can also be considered as a
compactification of the space of algebraic maps of a fixed degree from \PP^1
to the Grassmanian . Then the degree of the embedded variety
can be interpreted as an intersection product of pullbacks of
cohomology classes from through the map that evaluates
a map from \PP^1 at a point x\in \PP^1. We show that our formula for the
degree verifies the formula for these intersection products predicted by
physicists through Quantum cohomology~\cite{va92}~\cite{in91}~\cite{wi94}. We
arrive at the degree by proving a version of the classical Pieri's formula on
the variety , using a cell decomposition of a space that lies in between
and .Comment: 18 pages, Latex documen
Monami as an oscillatory hydrodynamic instability in a submerged sea grass bed
The onset of monami ~-- the synchronous waving of sea grass beds driven by a
steady flow -- is modeled as a linear instability of the flow. Unlike previous
works, our model considers the drag exerted by the grass in establishing the
steady flow profile, and in damping out perturbations to it. We find two
distinct modes of instability, which we label Mode 1 and Mode 2. Mode 1 is
closely related to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability modified by vegetation drag,
whereas Mode 2 is unrelated to Kelvin-Helmholtz and arises from an interaction
between the flow in the vegetated and unvegetated layers. The vegetation
damping, according to our model, leads to a finite threshold flow for both
these modes. Experimental observations for the onset and frequency of waving
compare well with model predictions for the instability onset criteria and the
imaginary part of the complex growth rate respectively, but experiments lie in
a parameter regime where the two modes can not be distinguished. % The
inclusion of vegetation drag differentiates our mechanism from the previous
linear stability analyses of monami.Comment: 4 figures, 13 page
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