C. K. Raju

C. K. Raju (born 7 March 1954) is an Indian computer scientist, mathematician, educator, physicist and polymath.^[1][2]

Biography

Birth and origin

Raju was born on 7 March 1954 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Education

He obtained a B.Sc. degree from the Institute of Science, Bombay (1973), an M.Sc. from the Department of Mathematics University of Mumbai, Bombay (1975), and a Ph.D. at the Indian Statistical Institute (1980).^[3]

Career

During the early 1980s, he was a faculty member at the Department of Statistics, teaching mathematics at the university of Pune.
Raju was a key contributor to the first Indian supercomputer, PARAM (1988–91),^[2]

Raju has also engaged in historical research, most notably claiming that the Jesuits transmitted infinitesimal calculus to Europe from India.^[4][5][6]

Raju built on E.T. Whittaker's beliefs (resuming an old dispute) that Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity built on the earlier work of Henri Poincaré. Raju claims that they were "remarkably similar", and Poincaré published every aspect of special relativity in papers between 1898 and 1905.
Raju goes further, saying that Einstein's failure to recognise the need for functional differential equations constitute a mistake that underlies subsequent relativistic physics.^[7] He proposes that relativistic physics must be reformulated using functional differential equations.^[8][9]
He also introduced the Retarded gravitation theory^[10] which modifies Newtonian gravity to be consistent with special relativity by replacing the instantaneous distance with the "last seen" distance. This is similar to the "last seen" distance that appears in the retarded potential in electromagnetism. It meets several tests of general relativity including the shift in Mercury's perihelion.^[11] and the gravitational bending of light.^[12] It also gives a good prediction of the Flyby anomaly^[13] and for stars's speed at the galaxy's edge without dark matter.^[10]

Through his research, Raju controversially ^[14] claimed that the Western philosophy of science, including its aspects that pertain to time ^[15] and the nature of mathematical proof^[16] are rooted in the theocratic needs of the Roman Catholic Church.^[17]

He has authored 12 books and dozens of articles, mainly on the subjects of physics, mathematics, and the history and philosophy of science.^[18]

Awards & Honors

He received the Telesio-Galilei Academy Award in 2010^[19] for defining a product of Schwartz distributions,^[20] for proposing an interpretation of quantum mechanics,^[21] dubbed the structured-time interpretation and a model of physical time evolution.^[22]

Bibliography

• Raju, C.K. (1994). Time: Towards a Consistent Theory. Kluwer Academic. ISBN 978-0-7923-3103-2.
• Raju, C.K. (2003). The Eleven Pictures of Time. Sage. ISBN 978-0-7619-9624-8.
• Raju, C. K. (2007). Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: The nature of mathematical proof and the transmission of the calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE. Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-81-317-0871-2.
• Raju, C. K. (2009). Is Science Western in Origin?. Multiversity and Citizens International. ASIN B0030EG1FQ.
• Raju, C. K. (2013). Euclid and Jesus: How and why the church changed mathematics and Christianity across two religious wars. Multiversity and Citizens International. ISBN 978-983-3046-17-1.