MATHEMATICS is not just numbers but serious life business is what the students at the Mathematical Sciences Foundation (MSF) in St. Stephen’s College are out to prove. They are trying to work out the calculations behind search engines such as Google.

The new programme in Mathematical Engineering and Information Technology to be launched by MSF next week will be all about making search engines and ways to protect database.

“The programme is all about image compression- compressing data so that it is not lost while retrieving. One of their projects would comprise creating a desktop search engines all by themselves,” said Dr. Sanjeev Agrawal. Tata Interactive Systems Limited would be certifying the seven-month programme along with the MSF.
The MSF is also opening a concurrent centre for its programme in Mathematical Finance at South Campus from August 16.

“Many Management students come to us because mathematics is largely used in stock markets and pricing of products. But most people who pass out of business schools are unaware of these elementary tactics as the training focuses mainly on management rather that derivatives and probability, which we teach here,” said Vipul Kumar, Business Manager with MSF.

The course, which is running for six years now would soon have a South Delhi centre at British School, Chanakyapuri.
“The companies that we interned in are actually applying softwares and techniques devised by us in their projects,” said Amit Chandra, an MSc Student from the foundation which is full time programme in association with University of Houston.