Jayanta Banerjee: 6 books

Dr. Jayanta Kumar Banerjee is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. He has studied, worked, and travelled extensively in Asia, Europe, and in North, Central, and South America. He publishes in the areas of engineering, social sciences, and education and also writes poems and short stories in English, Spanish, and Bengali.

Essentially, Beyond the Waves is a natural extension of my first bilingual book: Waves/Olas that has fifty poems in English and twenty four in Spanish; none is a translation of the other. In Beyond the Waves all the poems are in English. The new Spanish poems are yet to come in a separate volume.

Every artistwhether a painter, musician, or writerpasses through a gloomy period before surfacing into sunshine. Even Pablo Picasso had his blue period before emerging in rose period. My autumn poems aspire to go through a short winter before entering into my poems of springtime, just like a spring that jumps from season to season.

The third side of a coin is essentially the one that connects the other two sides: the head and the tail. This analogy is used throughout the book to emphasize the importance of mastery learning in any profession, such as medicine, law, or engineering. Mastery learning is the essential outcome of...

Illusion has many real examples in nature. This working table I am writing on, a piece of wood, is so firm, so rigid, so static that it is hard to believe that literally trillions of electrons in it are moving almost at the speed of light. Its rigidity is an illusion, like a magic. This universe is a Magic Kingdom in the Disney World!

In this new textbook, a number of unusual applications are discussed in addition to the usual topics covered in a course on Statistical Physics. Examples are: statistical mechanics of powders, Peierls instability, graphene, Bose-Einstein condensates in a trap, Casimir effect and the quantum Hall effect....