Re: On alienation of SCIT by TELUSA -Reply

D. Sreenivasa Rao (dsr@VNET.IBM.COM)
Tue, 02 Jan 96 14:19:09 -0500

> >>> Ramakrishna S. Pillalamarri <pkrishna@ARL.MIL>
> >As Katta G. Murthy quoted in his book on
> >Operations Research (on a class of "unsolvable"
> >problems),
>
> > tiviri yisumuna tailambu deeya vaccu
> > tavili mRgatRshNalO neeru trAga vaccu
> > tirigi kundETi kommu sAdhimpa vaccu,
> > (kaanee)
> > cEri moorkhuni manasu ranjimpa rAdu!
>
> wow ! did he quote this telugu poem in his book ?
> He ought to be commended for it. How many books by
> Indian writers contain Indian examples anyway ?
> Not many I guess.
>
> How did I miss his poem when it was our prescribed
> text in the class !
>
> Madan
>

There is a textbook on Finite Element Methods (the title
is just that, I think), authoured by a Dr. Reddy (I can't
recall his complete name), that starts with a telugu quote
in the Preface. When I first saw this book with my Civil/
Mechanical friends in Kanpur, I thought wow, this is
remarkable. Later, I got introduced to OR, and came across
Dr. Murthy garu's books, and found telugu poems quoted
more than once.

Do TELUSAers in other fields know of textbooks/treatises
in non-literary areas that contain telugu quotes? I know
of atleast one PhD thesis in Comp. engg. from Univ of
Calif. that starts with a Vemana padyam... (mine, of course;-))

--sreenivas-- dsr@vnet.ibm.com

ps: Does anybody recall the book by Dr. Reddy and the poem
therein?