Chandrakant Raju (born 7 March 1954) is an Indian
computer scientist,
mathematician,
educator,
physicist and
polymath.[1][2] He received the Telesio Galilei Academy Award in 2010 for defining a product of Schwartz distributions[citation needed], 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.[3][4]
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),[2]
Raju has also engaged in historical research, most notably claiming infinitesimal calculus was transmitted to Europe from India.[5][6][7]
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 constitute a mistake that underlies subsequent relativistic physics.[8] He proposes that relativistic physics must be reformulated using functional differential equations. [9][10]
Through his research, Raju has claimed that the Western philosophy of science, including its aspects that pertain to time [11] and the nature of mathematical proof[12] are rooted in the theocratic needs of the
Roman Catholic Church.[13]
He has authored 12 books and dozens of articles, mainly on the subjects of physics, mathematics, and the history and philosophy of science.[14]
Bibliography
Raju, C.K. (1994). Time: Towards a Consistent Theory. Kluwer Academic.
ISBN978-0-7923-3103-2.
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.
ISBN978-81-317-0871-2.
C.K. Raju (2009). Is Science Western in Origin?. Multiversity and Citizens International.
ASINB0030EG1FQ.
C.K. Raju (2013). Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars. Multiversity and Citizens International.
ISBN978-983-3046-17-1.
^C. K. Raju, Time: Towards a Consistent Theory, Kluwer Academic, 1994, Chapter 5b. The error is that the essential history-dependence of the relativistic many-body problem has been washed away by using a Taylor expansion in powers of the delay to convert a retarded functional differential equation into an ordinary differential equation.
^C.K. Raju. Electromagnetic Time, chapter 5b, p.116-35 in Raju, C.K. (1994). Time: Towards a Consistent Theory. Kluwer Academic.
ISBN978-0-7923-3103-2.
^See Raju, C.K. (2003). The Eleven Pictures of Time. Sage.
ISBN978-0-7619-9624-8. p.298-299.
^Review of The Eleven Pictures of Time in Time and Society, London, 13(2), September, 2004, pp. 405-7
^Raju, C.K. "Towards Equity in Mathematics Education 1. Goodbye Euclid!", Bharatiya Samajik Chintan, Indian Academy of Social Science. pp. 255-264. 2009.
[1]
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. 17.
Oxford University Press: 378.
doi:
10.1093/philmat/nkp003.