Infrastructure & Mathematical Libraries

India is country that has produced mind blowing Mathematicians since time immemorial who took this world on their stride. Their theorems on number theory were something that no one could imagine of! Computer Science is an applied field of mathematics, where the mathematical principles are applied to solve the problem rapidly. When this is the case, why is that we don't produce efficient computer scientists as we produced Mathematicians, when its just an application of those glorious mathematical principles? The European and American countries hold the lead in fields of Computing Sciences. Its time for us to sit back and do a little brainstorming so as to find out where the problem lies.

Colleges are places where the young Engineers are groomed for the industry. Its the place where students are being made employable. An ideal ground where the scientific principles are put into action. Ironically, most of the college labs, particularly computer science labs lack infrastructure needed for high speed computing. The fault is not only on the infrastructure but also on the care taken in keeping the software library updated with the latest in the market. Computing sciences require high end software mathematical libraries as the normal compilers do not support high speed operation on large numbers. Most colleges are not even aware of these packages and therefore the onus on the students who have to search and collect these software themselves.



Onus here refers to not only the effort taken in locating Mathematical libraries but also to the fact that most of these libraries are not freewares and therefore require an amount after which the software unlocks. The institutions must take efforts at least to fund these amounts to purchase these software on students' requests. Its a pity that most colleges lack such software where the Internet-Superhighway is extremely pervasive and information is omnipresent. This calls for an urgent improvement in the infrastructure of colleges and will also help the colleges themselves to raise to the ranks of premier institutes like the IITs.



The students have a burning passion to do high end projects in computing sciences , for which high quality software is needed. The institution on its part is required to pay heed to student requirements and provide them wit adequate facilities rather than just iterating the derogatory statements like "finish the projects within deadline". Statements like these will drive students to frustration leading to sub-optimal projects, which are projects only for name sake. I hope, in the near future a sea change in infrastructure will occur and an era in which the computer scientists from India will soon begin. I can hear some of you referring to those top positions in foreign institutes being held by Indian Engineers, but those people are from top notch colleges like IIT. The solution is as simple as this. Satisfy the students' needs and they will rise to glory!