- IIT Gandhinagar has launched ‘Project Isaac’ to engage students confined to their rooms or homes in productive activities
- The project is inspired by Isaac Newton who was similarly sent home by Trinity College, Cambridge, because of the Great Plague of London in 1665
NEW DELHI : Utilise time at hand due to social distancing in view of coronavirus outbreak to hone new skills the way Isaac Newton did when he was sent home by Trinity college during the Great Plague of London, IIT-Gandhinagar has told its students.
With classes and all other activities being suspended till March 31 due to coronavirus, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar has launched ‘Project Isaac’ to engage students confined to their rooms or homes in productive activities.
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“The project is inspired by Isaac Newton who 350 years ago was similarly sent home by Trinity College, Cambridge, because of the Great Plague of London in 1665. It was during this year that Newton, then a 22-year-old college student, developed some of his most profound discoveries, including early calculus, as well his theories of optics and gravity,” Sudhir K Jain, Director, IIT Gandhinagar told PTI.
Source: livemint
