Even these days, Mathematics continues to remain a hard nut to crack for many children, despite several attempts from academicians to make the subject student-friendly. Dr NM Bujurke is an accomplished retired Mathematics Teacher, but his penchant for making it popular continues to remain undeterred.
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| Prof Emeritus NM Bujurke |
Dwelling on the peculiar, adverse conditions prevailing on the ground, he doesn't like to blame the pupils for that. He says: "On the other hand, it is the whole and sole responsibility of the Teacher to motivate and make the subject interesting. There is a proverb in this regard, which states- An expert of any field/discipline is one who is able to explain satisfactorily and also impress upon the first person he meets on the streets".
Dr NM Bujurke also opines: "Thanks, to the various technological advancements, facilities and resources it is more simpler and easier to convince/explain the hitherto assumed tough subject in a simpler and easier way, these days".
Mathematicians of early days: He feels proud of the great Indian Mathematicians Aryabhatta, Bhaskaracharya, and Ramanujan. Prof NM Bujurke says "It is our mistake or misfortune that we are not well versed in Sanskrit as Sanskrit has put many complex algorithms in simpler forms, Aryabhatta's ‘Kuṭṭaka’ is an algorithm for finding integer solutions of linear Diophantine equations, Bhaskaracharya in the field of Algebra...
...Ramanujan can be considered a mathematician of the world. Hardy was able to recognize his greatness and managed to get him to Cambridge University, Three of his notebooks were edited by Bruce Berndt and G.E Andrews which runs in volumes".
Missing the first rank by one or two marks all along!: Dr Nagendrappa Masanappa Bujurke’ s schooling was completed at S P high school Gulbarga where he was given his foundation for all his achievements in his later life and is also thankful to the teachers who had taught him. He received his Higher Secondary Certificate in 1963 from SP College Gulbarga and then completed his BSc from Govt College Gulbarga in the year 1966. After his BSc, he joined for MSc at Karnataka University at Dharwad. He fondly recalls the administration of the then Vice-Chancellor D.C Pavate terming it to be the Golden Era of Karnataka University. He completed his MSc in the year 1968. Throughout his education, most of the time he had missed 1st ranks by one or two marks.
He is thankful to his parents and brother for supporting and sponsoring his education. Later he joined SP Science college Gulbarga as a research associate from 1968-70. From 1970-83 he was a research associate at the KUPG centre now known as Gulbarga University.
Senior Scientific Officer at IIT Delhi: Later, he moved to IIT Delhi as Senior Scientific Officer to work on a research project on Bio Mechanics with Prof M.P Singh from the year 1978-81. During this period, he got good exposure as he had an opportunity to meet Professors of Cambridge University as they visited IIT for their collaborative works particularly in the field of numerical analysis, computational mathematics and fluid mechanics. During this time Prof Dr N.M Bujurke also engaged in a few courses for MTech students at IIT Delhi.
The man behind Computer courses in KUD: In 1983 he joined Karnataka University as a Reader in the Dept of Mathematics. Considering his experience and exposure at IIT Delhi Prof Dr NM Bujurke was given the responsibility to introduce computer studies at university with the support of then Professors Dr KS Amur, Dr Sampathkumar, Dr BR Bhat, and Dr Savadatti. In the beginning, PGDCA (Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application) course was introduced to faculty and students of the university. Prof Dr NM Bujurke managed to get his student PS Hiremath to Karnataka university from REC Trichy who had formerly also worked at REC Suratkal as he had good knowledge of computers. PGDCA course was then started with the only computer then expanded to 2 in later days!
Later on, MCA was introduced. KUD was the 3rd institution that started the MCA course in Karnataka after REC Suratkal and JC College Mysore, and this was started with support from then Vice-Chancellor Prof Ramegouda who was interested in expansion of computer-related activities at KUD Laboratory with the initial grant of 5 Lakhs from Dept of Electronics.
Finding tutors a great problem: However, the big hurdle was to find teachers or trainers for these courses to which Prof Dr NM Bujurke managed to bring weekend visiting lecturers and professors from then premium engineering colleges across Karnataka. Some of them were Prof Kurbar, Prof Baligar, Mrs Meena Ballapnavar, Mrs Iyer, Prof Mr Handigod from BVB Engineering college Hubli, Prof Algur, Prof Joshi, Prof Karur from SDM College of Engineering and Technology Dharwad, Prof Ananth Krishnayya, Prof Prabhu and few others from REC Suratkal and Mr Pilli from Belgaum.
Prof Dr NM Bujurke also remembers support from the then Registrars of KUD, Rajnish Goel, Kaniram and Professors of KUD, Prof Dr Mullimani. The then VC tried to bring the essence of IIT’s and Cambridge University to Dharwad. In later years MSc in Computer Science was also introduced as a course in University.
In later days Prof NM Bujurke played a major role in implementing practical sessions for the first time in Karnataka University Dharwad, later found to be very helpful for studies of applied mathematics.
Cambridge University visit: He visited Cambridge University from October 1985 to September 1986 as a Commonwealth academic staff fellow for the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics for collaborative works with Timothy J Pedley and other stalwarts at the University.
In later years he had an opportunity to re-visit the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics again for collaborative works as an exchange of scientists from INSA (Indian National Science Academy). Prof Bujurke was also instrumental in bringing Prof Pedley three times to Karnataka University Dharwad for lecturing, and he remembers his last visit as Raman Professor to KUD.
Prof N.M.Bujurke, Timothy J Pedley and O.R.Tutty’s known collaborative researches:
“Comparison of Series Expansion and Finite Difference Computations of internal laminar flow”
Ramesh.B.Kudenatti, N.M.Bujurke and Timothy.J.Pedley’s known collaborative researches:
“Stability of Two Dimensional Collapsible Channel Flow at High Reynolds Number”
In recent years Prof N.M Bujurke has referred many of his students to work with Pedley.
Recognitions and Awards:
- In the year 2000 Prof NM Bujurke was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India for his contributions in the field of Applied Mathematics/ Fluid Dynamics/ Numerical Analysis Mathematical methods.
- In the year 2003, he was elected as a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA).
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| Fellowship INSA |
- In the year 2020 he has been conferred honorary Fellowship of Karnataka Science and Technology Academy (KSTA)
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| Honorary Fellowship KSTA |
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