Ekaveera Gouribhatla, founder of Adjoint Institute of Mathematics

The founder

Ekaveera
Gouribhatla

Founder & CEO, Adjoint Institute of Mathematics

To bring quality Mathematics education to the young generation, Mr. Ekaveera founded an institution devoted entirely to the subject — with 15 years of teaching experience behind it.

§1 · The journey

From engineering
to teaching Mathematics.

  1. An engineer’s foundation

    M.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Osmania University — a training in how Mathematics drives real systems.

  2. Mathematics in research

    Since 2012, writing about the Mathematics behind wireless communications and signal processing (CDMA system models, MIMO, characteristic functions) on the Mathematics in Research blog.

  3. Fifteen years of teaching

    Fifteen years teaching Mathematics across standards — from school foundations to demanding competitive examinations.

  4. Around 300 students trained

    Students prepared for board examinations and competitive exams, each taught to understand rather than memorise.

  5. Adjoint Institute of Mathematics

    An institution for Mathematics alone — built on the belief that the subject is a way of thinking, and that every student can learn it.

§2 · Teaching philosophy

Understanding
before everything.

Strong fundamentals, honest reasoning and a classroom where every question is welcome. The full approach is set out as a proof on the home page.

  • (i)

    Understanding comes before memory

    A result that is understood does not need to be memorised.

  • (ii)

    Every student can reason mathematically

    Mathematical thinking is a skill that is built, not a talent some are born with.

  • (iii)

    Hard problems are made of simple ideas

    Learning to break a problem down is the most valuable skill we teach.

  • (iv)

    Mistakes are information

    Every error shows exactly what to learn next.

§3 · In numbers

Fifteen years,
one subject.

15
years teaching Mathematics
≈300
students trained for boards and competitive exams
14
programmes, school to postgraduate
curiosity encouraged

§4 · Education

Academic
background.

Master of Technology (M.Tech)

Electronics & Communication Engineering

Osmania University, Hyderabad

Portrait of Ekaveera Gouribhatla
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Elements · Book I · Proposition 1

On learning Mathematics

“There is no royal road to geometry.”

— Euclid, to King Ptolemy I

As the story goes, the king asked for a shorter way to learn geometry than the Elements. Euclid said there wasn’t one. It is still how we teach: no shortcuts, just understanding built one careful step at a time, starting with the very first proposition.

  1. Start with a segment.
  2. Draw a circle about each end, radius AB.
  3. Join the meeting point C. All three sides are equal. ∎

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