Chandrakant Raju (born 7 March 1954) is an Indian computer scientist, mathematician, educator, physicist and polymath. He received the Telesio Galilei Academy Award in 2010 for defining a product of Schwartz distributions, for proposing an interpretation of quantum mechanics, dubbed the structured-time interpretation, and a model of physical time evolution, and for proposing the use of functional differential equations in physics.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Bibliography
• 4 References
• 5 Further reading
• 6 External links

Early life and education

Raju was born on 7 March 1954 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He obtained a B.Sc. degree from the Ins*ute of Science, Bombay (1973), an M.Sc. from the Department of Mathematics University of Mumbai, Bombay (1975), and a Ph.D. at the Indian Statistical Ins*ute (1980).

Career

During the early 1980s, he was a faculty member at the Department of Statistics, University of Pune. Raju was a key contributor to the first Indian supercomputer, PARAM (1988–91),

Raju has also done considerable historical research, most notably claiming infinitesimal calculus was transmitted to Europe from India.

Raju built on E.T. Whittaker's beliefs that Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity built on the earlier work of Henri Poincaré. Raju claims that they were "remarkably similar", and every aspect of special relativity was published by Poincaré in papers between 1898 and 1905. Raju goes further, saying that Einstein's failure to recognise the need for functional differential equations cons*ute a mistake that underlies subsequent relativistic physics. He proposes that relativistic physics must be reformulated using functional differential equations.

Through his research, Raju has claimed that the Western philosophy of science, including its aspects that pertain to time and the nature of mathematical proof are rooted in the theocratic needs of the Roman Catholic Church.

He has aut*d 12 books and dozens of articles, mainly on the subjects of physics, mathematics, and the history and philosophy of science.

Bibliography

• Raju, C.K. (1994). Time: Towards a Consistent Theory. Kluwer Academic. ISBN:978-0-7923-3103-2.
• Raju, C.K. (2003). The Eleven Pictures of Time. Sage. ISBN:978-0-7619-9624-8.
• C.K. Raju. (2007). Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The nature of mathematical proof and the transmission of the calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE. Pearson Longman. ISBN:978-81-317-0871-2.
• C.K. Raju (2009). Is Science Western in Origin?. Multiversity and Citizens International. ASIN:B0030EG1FQ.
• C.K. Raju (2013). Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars. Multiversity and Citizens International. ISBN:978-983-3046-17-1.

References

Further reading

• Ferreirós, José (2009). "Book review: C.K. RAJU. Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The Nature of Mathematical Proof and the Transmission of the Calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE". Philosophia Mathematica. Oxford University Press. 17: 378. doi:10.1093/philmat/nkp003.
• Pisharoty, Sangeeta Barooah (18 September 2003). "Beyond the history of Time". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 20 August 2004. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
• Woodward, James F. (December 1996). "Book review:Time: Towards a Consistent Theory. C. K. Raju". Foundations of Physics. Springer Netherlands. 26 (12). doi:10.1007/BF02282131. S2CID:189834650.

External links

• C.K. Raju's Website
• On Google scholar - His work on Statistics
• On Google scholar - His work on Physics