About My PhD Mentor

For me, learning is the whole point of existence. 

Here I'll describe some of the circumstances and insights that brought me into contact with and benefited me so greatly from my beloved TEACHER (My PhD Thesis Advisor) Prof. N V E S Murthy. 

I am a teacher because I want to be one, not because I fell into it. True, in my view, if it is my choice, it should aid me in growing my character, assist me make good choices, and so on. 

Up until the middle of my professional life, I believed that mathematics was practised so that students could acquire the skills necessary to measure and infer with certainty the qualities and quantities they encounter in their everyday lives. Perhaps I realised this because I witnessed some form of promotion of discipline (complete order) in the echo system that included my family, school/college, society, and the individuals I associated with. Up until 2005, this was my sole assumption. 

I first learned about Fuzzy Sets from Prof. Murthy. Whenever a new path presents itself, I automatically wonder "why this?" before considering "how this?" I don't know why, but I didn't really pursue this 'why' with him at the time. Conversations with Prof. Murthy are often informal and inspiring, and they cover a wide range of topics beyond mathematics (which he also teaches) and homoeopathy (which he also practises). At last, under his tutelage, I completed and submitted a Fuzzy sets-based thesis on the topic of "Relations and Partitions, with a brief study of closure operators associated with relations." As a result, he had a pivotal role in awakening (in me) a latent desire to investigate Relations inside a rigorously mathematical framework. 

But I see life as an opportunity to develop competencies in interpersonal communication and self-awareness. Is this administration supposed to follow a predetermined (rigorous) procedure? I don't see how preplanning responses to unexpected events can be considered management. Without a doubt, Prof. Murthy has taught me how to handle unusual circumstances by carefully monitoring everyday occurrences. I owe him a great deal because he demonstrated a style of mathematically modelling techniques for handling common and uncommon occurrences together. 

Finally, I was able to reframe my views on equality, exactness, precision, total order, and monotonic reasoning to instead emphasise the importance of similarity (in the direction of classification) and compatibility (in the direction of clustering), as well as imprecision (in the direction of measurement) and approximation (in the direction of inference).