Reflections on a Growing Scientific Dialogue

The initiative taken by our young minds to publish the Science Magazine InScight to inculcate interests among the people in academic community to have better understanding in different interesting topics with the help of people of varied interests in science disciplines gives me immense pleasure to see that it has completed one year of its successful journey starting in January 2025. Now, in January 2026 issue, InScight has brought to you the discussion of science in different disciplines including Mathematics which, in my opinion, is not a science rather a tool for developing science. This issue includes discussion on the topic of 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance, opening a new field of research for treatments of auto-immune diseases. A discussion on Diophantine Equations, connecting Recreational Mathematics to Number Theory, will give ample scope of thinking to the mathematics lovers. You will also get discussion on prime numbers, showing how irregularities in practice follow statistical regularity.

If you are truly motivated towards something, no obstacles can stop you reaching the destination, as can be seen through an inspiring article on how Nikolai Koshliakov developed Generalized Zeta Function from a Soviet Labour Camp. The discussion on how Niels Bohr’s work on Quantum Revolution was inspired from Bohr-Van Leeuwen theorem which raises a fundamental paradox, is an article worth reading. This issue also gives some very interesting mathematics quiz along with their correct answers. Along with some more interesting topics, one will get a wonderful discussion, through a comic, on how Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay was deprived of his recognition for his discovery on IVF technique, leading to his untimely demise.

The discussions are not only by the members of the IISER Kolkata community but also by the students and the faculty members of different premier institutions, showing the gain in popularity of InScight in just one year period. It is mostly observed that the people at large do not think out of the traditional way because of lack of time due to different obligations, or because of lack of interest. However, there is a necessity of out-of-the-box thinking in order to promote science towards its proper utilization in human interest. You will all agree with me that any science without mathematics works like a fish out of water, and hence understanding and development of mathematics for solving different real-life problems is a must.

Through this platform we invite students, researchers, educators and all interested citizens to get involved in different scientific discussions, and InScight, I am confident, will serve the purpose of bringing different domains of science under the same umbrella to handle any issue of this universe by providing a platform for critical discussion and analyses of different problems. I wish InScight to keep its upward journey through the radder of success with time, as it has been doing for last one year.

Prof. Asok K. Nanda,
Department of Mathemetical Sciences,
IISER Kolkata