ABOUT NITIN VATS...
"FUTURE OF E-LEARNING CAN NOT BE ACHIEVED BY JUST ADDING MULTIMEDIA OR PUTTING MATERIAL IN THE FORMAT DESIGNED BY PSYCHOLOGICAL SURVEY/INSTITUTION. IT SHOULD BE PUT PRECISELY IN THAT FORMAT FOR WHICH THE BRAIN CONSUME MINIMUM ENERGY AND TIME TO UNDERSTAND"
-Nitin Vats
Nitin Vats is among very few researchers who can be called researcher by passion not just by profession. Mainly he is actively working in computer science, mathematics, neuroscience and psychology.
Nitin is the only world record holder in mental calculations who is also a professional researcher. He is best known for doing one of the toughest calculations (Factorial value of a 10 digit number) mentally in the world. One can try this on calculator or computer, it will definitely get hang!
Nitin obtained his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering. He got opportunity to join Max plank Institute, Saarland University, Germany and other top US universities for his masters but he preferred to stay in India. As he got interest in number theory so he switched from Mechanical Engineering to Computer science and Mathematics that he studied from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Later he worked with Microsoft Research lab to do research in Cryptography. Meanwhile he got in touch with some neuroscientists so he got chance to learn how to formulate his thinking in pure scientific language. Here he realized the importance of his research what he did during setting the world records and if he could make a business model of the application of his research that can serve the big part of the society and can completely change the view of learning methodology of the world.
His research interest in cryptography is lattice based and elliptic curves based cryptosystems. His published research work includes complete crack of a lattice based cryptosystem called CTRU. Apart from it he has designed a new lattice based cryptosystem that is completely secure against most of the attacks that are more prone to original NTRU cryptosystem.
In Number theory he got few very interesting results. It includes very tight upper and lower bound of gamma function, Bernoulli numbers and Catalan numbers. His factorial formula can have wide application in numerical analysis for calculating factorial value. For an instance one can compare its accuracy with other formulae as it gives approximately same relative error with only 5 terms for which other famous formulae like stirlling, lanczose and spogue needs 3 to 4 times number of terms. He has also given one generalized expansion of gamma function. (it is under communication for publication). Right now we have only four formulae by famous mathematicians including Euler ,lanczose and spouge for expansion of gamma function.
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His mission is to bring change in learning and teaching methodology. We still don’t follow totally scientific approach to learn or understand knowledge as there is no unique theory available that says how exactly we understand things.
E-learning is claimed to be the learning methodology of the twenty first century. Many companies aim to capture this market and design software to connect people or use technology to make more interactive and graspable learning material. They use suggestions from psychologists to design their educational material, aimed to make the material more accessible than the way given in conventional text books. Adding video, audio or animations by intuition that are done to make the material much easier to understand are not necessarily optimal for brain.
Understanding is a function of IQ, imagination and previous knowledge of the context that differs in each individual. He has generated the algorithmic approach to approximately quantify the energy consumed by the brain. These algorithms suggest the cheapest and most efficient way for transferring any particular type of information to the brain. The term “energy and time consumed by brain” has deep meaning. The Plan is to design educational material, virtual labs, improved alternate of research material search engines that will follow the protocols which guarantee minimum energy and time consumption of the brain.
Nitin has conducted a number of workshops and lectures on memory techniques and on the topic “future of learning” in many top institutes and corporate research labs.
WORLD RECORDS OF NITIN VATS....
Nitin did his World Records demonstration on March 05, 2004 in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in presence of faculty and Media. All these problems were generated randomly by the experts at the time of demonstration. The following were some of the fast calculations that he did mentally.
1. Factorial of 89 (=89*88*87…………..3*2*1) exact value
2. Factorial of 200(=200*199*198…………..3*2*1) exact value
3. Multiplication table for 987654321012345678902468135792357014968.
4. Product of 20, two digit numbers
14*23*32*41*50*59*68*77*86*95*11*13*17*19*23*29*31*37*41*43
5. 1729th power of 79 (79^1729) in exponential form
6. Square of 9705301086 (exact value)
7. Factorial of 7000000000 (=7000000000*6999999999*6999999998…………..3*2*1) in exponential form
In another demonstration Nitin demonstrated fast calculation of big multiplication tables. He wrote multiplication table of 397580463259 in 50 seconds.
He also wrote the multiplication table of a 100 digit number in 466 seconds.
87935246295472310576789987324108096427964628053421 4729384219035295787602395428 1473954372981709080729.
MISSION OF NITIN VATS..My mission is to bring change in learning and teaching methodology. We still don’t follow totally scientific approach to learn or understand knowledge as there is no unique theory available that says how exactly we understand things.
In my approach, I assume all knowledge as information and brain as a machine which process or store this information. So information in different format (i.e. different ways of presentation) consumes different amount of time and energy of brain. It is analogous to the instance when we code any program for computer in C, CPP or Java. Machine takes different amount of time and consume different amount of energy for processing that program. In the similar fashion when we study something by book or discuss the same thing with teacher or friend or just see video lectures, we take different amount of time to understand it as our brain has to do different amount of work in understanding the same thing when it is presented in different format but there exists one way which consume minimum time of the brain. It means that it needs least amount of work to execute it. My aim is to design the protocols that guarantee least amount of energy consumption of the brain to understand anything to everything and then to change all education material accordingly. It can affect the design of learning material to the user-computer interaction concepts.
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