2^nd Call for Papers/ Abstract , Last date December 31^st, 2019

 

Dear Friends,

We bring to your kind attention about a first time of its kind 

     Symposium on Jainism and Mathematics on June 20^th and 21^st, 2020 at MIT – USA

    

                    Symposium title  “Ancient Wisdom Meets the Modern Age”

 

This email is to invite eminent scholars like you, from all over the world who have conducted original research in studying Jain scriptures, specifically for their mathematical contributions. We  also seek  papers on newly researched subject matter such as on transmission between Arabic, Greek, Chinese, and Jain mathematics;  unpublished Jain mathematical texts in Tamil, Kannada, and other Indian languages and their antiquity; Jain number theory and its uniqueness; earliest positional notations, Jaina concept of infinity and modern infinity; unique and independent contributions of Jain mathematics in the outside world. Please see the list of some  suggested topics  (as an attachment)

 

    Kindly send  your  abstract  as soon as possible but definitely by 31^st December, 2019. 

 

The Scientific Organization Committee of this symposium  (SOC) will  then go through all abstracts received and select several most relevant for presentation in person at the symposium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , (MIT) in USA on 20^th and 21^st June 2020.  All selected original articles will be edited and are likely to be published by a publisher as a monograph.

 

All travel, visa, boarding, and lodging expenses will be arranged and paid by us at no cost to the invited scholars. 

 

Kindly disseminate and forward  this announcement and the attached items including the flier to all  the interested scholars and provide us their email addresses if possible.

 

Please send all your responses and inquiries to CONTACT@Jainmath.org and magnuseng@comast.net. 

 

For a detailed information of the symposium please visit www.Jainmath.org.  

 

We have collected some materials on the following google drive which might be useful in your search for topics and references. 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19CIIvqPP8leQB3G-BfPVhzAphn051PZn?usp=sharing

  

Thank you, and we are looking forward to hearing from you.

 

Organizing Committee: Pankajkumar K Shah, Boston Dr. Sulekh Jain, Las Vegas Dr. Manoj Jain, Emory Univ. USA Dr. Anupam Jain, Indore, India Dr. Devavrat Shah, MIT, USA

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) Dr. Catherine Morice-Singh, Paris, France Dr. Ken Pugh, Yale Univ. USA Dr. Surender K Jain, Ohio Univ. USA

Jain Center of Greater Boston Haresh Tamboli, Boston, President

JAINA Mahesh Wadher, Los Angeles, President