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Kannan Soundarajan

Indian born Kannan Soundarajan is barely 30 year old, you is emerging as one of the foremost mathematicians of the world. He has demonstrated how mathematical analyses can influence our life be it tips to become a champion billiards player or even creating a great sound system. According to him, what is true for a large billiards ball could also be true for the invisible or microscope world. Soundarajan, who grew up in Chennai and studied at Padma Sesadri High School, Nungambakkam, showed early inclination towards mathematics. In middle school, his teaches identified the talent and put him in touch with a research institute in Chennai. He employed his mathematical talent to represent India at the 1991. International Math Olympiad, winning a silver medal. Soundarajan is today a Professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Early this year, he was in India to receive the infosys Award. According to the citation, he has made fundamental contribution to the analytic number theory. He has made breakthroughs in difficult problems, as well as revolution of some longstanding challenges. Many of the analytic tools Soundarajan and his associates developed have become standard for researchers.

His recent work brings out the connections between the classical number theory and quantum physics.

Cloud computing : It is the delivery of computing and storage capacity as a service to a community of end recipients. The name comes from the use of a cloud shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructures it contains in system diagrams. Cloud computing entrusts services with a user’s data, software and computation over a network.

TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name). It is a standard software protocol and applications programming interface that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras.

Poverty Threshold : The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a given country. The common international poverty line has in the past been roughly S1 a day. In 2008, the World Bank came out with a revised figure of S1.25 at 2005 purchasing power parity (PPP)

Double Taxation : Corporate earnings taxed at both the corporate level and again as a stockholder dividend.

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