Divakaran D

Public Engagement & Outreach

Articles & Expository Notes

Conceptual Unity Vs Cognitive Load

20/06/2026

A session at the fifth conference on the Practice of Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics

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Dicey Exploration

04/06/2026, 05/06/2026

A session for Sri Sri Ravishankar Vidya Mandir Students.

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Treating derivative as a ratio

11/10/2025

A talk at the Fourth Conference on the Practice of Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics

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Negative Numbers are not so special

15/04/2025

A session at the post camp training session for the All Girls Math Nurture Camp organised by Raising a Mathematician Foundation.

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Game of Billiards

09/04/2025

A lecture to Karnataka government pre-university college teachers

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Origami and Constructibility

16/12/2023

A session at the ICTS-RRI maths circle

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Applicability of Complex Analysis: Polya Vector Fields

28/09/2023

A talk give at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

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Rediscovering Continuity

26/01/2023

A talk for the mathematics club at St. Joseph's University, Bangalore

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Recorded Talks & Public Lectures

Constancy of the ratio of circumference to diameter

July 19, 2021Online

In this talk, I discuss an intuitive proof of the fact that the ratio of circumference to diameter is independent of the circle.

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It’s a Math Math Math World with Divakaran & Shraddha

2023 - PresentRadio Azim Premji University

A podcast series where Prof. Divakaran serves as a tour guide to mathematics for the "average student" Shraddha, exploring the beauty and accessibility of the subject.

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