"Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: `I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvellous machine."

-By Michael Atiyah

I wonder if there is a way to sell half of your soul to 'the devil' (refer to the above quote). And keep half of it reserved for Geometry??

I have my academic training in Physics, Computation and Maths from IIT Kanpur (Bachelors) and Indian Institute of Science (Masters).

I believe Edsger W. Dijkstra was awesome. So is the tales of Panchatantra. My personal favourite tales is Wit is Superior to Brute Force. (Perhaps) This is my ultimate asylum on being a thinker in the field of Quantum computing.

First Law of Quantum Computing


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