Special Lecture to Celebrate
National Science Day: 28th February
Beyond Spherical Horses: Reasonable and Unreasonable Approximations in Natural Sciences
Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Director, TCG CREST
February 28, 2023
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
TCG CREST First Floor Classroom 3
About the Lecture
The lecture will broadly discuss pedagogic strategies used in the physical sciences to understand and utilize the ‘real’ world through approximations/idealizations. The talk is centred around Feynman’s ‘minimum sentence’ remark and possible extensions of it using the well-known Fermi-problem methods. The aim is to illustrate both the power and the limitations of approximations, a subject rarely included in science curricula.