Debarun Bhattacharya

Why do rational people make decisions that seem irrational?

Game Theory helps explain it.

In the Prisoner’s Dilemma, two people acting in self-interest both end up worse off. In the Stag Hunt, trust determines success. In the Game of Chicken, risk becomes strategy.

These models...

Mathematics isn’t the product of one culture; it’s a global story.

From African tally bones to Babylonian astronomy, from Indian zero to Islamic algebra, from Greek geometry to Newton’s calculus, each civilization added a layer.

Even calculus didn’t appear overnight. It was built...

Is the universe just matter and energy?

Or does reality depend on observation? Could we be inside a simulation? Or one universe among many? Or part of a larger consciousness?

From Materialism to the Multiverse, different models try to explain what “reality” really means.

Each...

What happens if you go back in time and prevent your own birth?

Or if an all-powerful being creates something, it cannot lift?

Paradoxes like the Grandfather paradox, the Heap paradox, or the Paradox of Tolerance aren’t just thought experiments—they stretch logic to its limits.

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