Risk Latte Presents Carr Challenge 4

ABOUT US

CARR CHALLENGE is a Global Quiz Competition in the field of finance, financial engineering, applied mathematics and physics.

CARR CHALLENGE is completely owned and managed by Risk Latte Americas Inc.

CARR CHALLENGE Program will comprise a series of quiz competitions that will be held every year in major cities, as well as at major university campuses around the world. Currently, the competition is slated to be held at Mumbai, Singapore, London, Toronto, Montreal and New York. At each of these regional levels 3 (three) winners will be chosen and of which, two would be invited to participate at the Grand Finale at the end of the season.

The Grand Finale of this competition will be held in New York after all regional rounds are complete.

This competition is being endorsed by a large number of senior Wall Street and the City of London bankers and finance professionals who have advanced degrees in physics and finance are endorsing this Program. Also, a large number of well-known physicists, mathematicians, computer and data scientists are endorsing this quiz competition and would be part of this competition as judges, observers and special guests.

This Program, and all the events in a particular season, shall be supervised by a Quiz Committee comprising banking and finance professionals, professionals working in the field of physical sciences and engineering and senior academics and research scholars from around the world.

WHY THE NAME CARR CHALLENGE?

This competition is named CARR CHALLENGE for one and one reason only. We would like to honour the memory of the great British mathematician George Shoobridge Carr whose book A Synopsis of Pure Mathematics inspired and guided the great Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Indeed, if there is one lasting legacy of George Shoobridge Carr it is that it gave the world Ramanujan.

A few years ago while doing research on String Theory in physics, the founder of this company, Rahul Bhattacharya, came across a name Amitabha Sen. Amitabha Sen was a physics post-doctoral student at the University of Chicago when he wrote a seminal paper on how to adapt Einstein’s general theory of relativity to take the first steps towards quantizing gravity and thereby produce a theory of quantum gravity. He inspired another great Indian physicist, Abhay Ashtekar, who is currently at the Syracuse University, to develop a detailed theory of quantum gravity.

Unfortunately, when Rahul Bhattacharya searched a little deeper to know more about Amitabha Sen, he came to a dead end. Amitabha Sen, it seemed, had decided to drop physics and pursue finance. He ended up joining the Swiss investment bank UBS. Another great mind lost to the senseless, vain world of finance.

However, Amitabha Sen had written an article for a Bengali forum in the United States in which he had talked about his tryst with George Shoobridge Carr and his book A Synopsis of Pure Mathematics.

While reading the article a curious thought struck Rahul. Can a book be that powerful to completely educate a genius? And, then a whole cascade of thoughts appeared.

How many more Ramanujans are out there in the small towns and villages of India? If with a bowl of rice, a poor kid in India can get to read a book such as that of Carr’s every day can he not change his destiny? How many more geniuses’ are wallowing in the economic filth and squalor of other third world countries? What if we could provide just a book like that of Carr’s to smart kids around the world, can we then not see hundreds, possibly thousands of bright mathematicians and physicists popping up in all the four corners of this earth? Can we truly break down the barriers of nation, classrooms, schools and intellectual prejudices by simply handing over a copy of great book to smart kids?

The idea of CARR CHALLENGE was born.