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{{Infobox website
| name = Gonit Sora
| logo = Gonit Sora Current Logo.png
| caption = Gonit Sora's Logo made of mathematical symbols.
| url = {{URL|https://gonitsora.com}} (English)<br />{{URL|https://as.gonitsora.com}} (Assamese)
| commercial = No
| type = Science Website
| registration = None
| language = two active editions
| content_license = * {{longitem|class=nowrap |[[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons<br />Attribution{{\}}Share-Alike]] 4.0{{padlsup|a}} }}* Media licensing varies
| editors = Manjil Saikia, Pankaj Mahanta
| launch_date = {{nowrap|{{start date and years ago|df=yes|2011|4|21}}}}
| current_status = Online
| footnotes = <div class="plainlist" style="border-top:1px solid #aaa;padding-top:0.3em;text-align:left;">* {{nowrap |{{sup|a}} Most text also dual-licensed under [[GFDL]].}}</div>
}}

'''''Gonit Sora''''' ([[Assamese language|Assamese]]: গণিত চ’ৰা) is a multi-lingual ([[English language|English]] and [[Assamese language|Assamese]]) web magazine devoted to publishing well written and original articles related to science and technology in general and mathematics in particular.<ref name=apmn>{{cite journal|last=Swee Cheng Lim|title=Editorial, Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter|journal=Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter|date=2013|volume=3|url=http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/03/0304/iii_iii.pdf}}</ref> Gonit Sora is an attempt to bridge the gap between classroom mathematics teaching and real life practical and fun mathematics. The website strives for the popularization of mathematics teaching and understanding at all levels.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.friedeye.com/some-emerging-success-stories-from-the-north-east-india/|title=Some emerging success stories from the North East India|date=1 October 2011|accessdate=3 January 2015}}</ref> The name of the website is in Assamese and means ‘gateway to mathematics’.<ref name=gs>{{cite web|url=http://gonitsora.com/about-us/|title=Gonit Sora: About Us | date=21 April 2011|accessdate=25 December 2014}}</ref> Founded on 21 April 2011 by two alumni of [[Tezpur University]], the website publishes expository articles, interviews and quizzes.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111123/jsp/northeast/story_14780260.jsp|title=The Telegraph: Numbers spell fun on website|date=23 November 2011|accessdate=25 December 2014}}</ref>

The website has its own editors and staff writers, and its advisory board consists of academicians from all over the world, including [[Sujatha Ramdorai]] and [[Nayandeep Deka Baruah]].<ref name="gs"/> Eminent Mathematicians, including [[Radha Charan Gupta]] and Sujatha Ramdorai have contributed articles for Gonit Sora.

==Goals and activities==
The website has the following goals:<ref name=mps>{{cite journal|authors=Pankaj J. Mahanta and Manjil P. Saikia|title=Gonit Sora: The Two Year Journey|journal=Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter|date=2013|volume=3|url=http://gonitsora.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Gonit-Sora-The-Two-Year-Journey-Asia-Pacific-Math-Newsletter.pdf}}</ref><ref>[http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/toc/0304.html Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter]</ref>

# To cater to the student community by posting relevant articles in all branches of mathematics,
# To focus on the humane side of the subject which is almost always lost in the traditional classroom approach to teaching,
# Create an online repository of mathematical articles and facts, which can be accessed free of cost by anyone willing to do so,
# Digitize the regional mathematical content in India in a form that is suitable for the web,
# Organise workshops and outreach activities for school students to make them see the beauty and joy of doing mathematics,
# To create a platform for students and teachers alike to discuss ideas, and
# It makes an attempt to reveal the underlying connection and importance of mathematics in other branches of science through mathematics related articles.

The activities of the website are:<ref name="mps"/>

#Posting articles every week on a topic related to mathematics,
#Posting interviews with mathematicians like [[Bruce C. Berndt]], [[Ashoke Sen]], [[S. R. S. Varadhan]], [[Jayant Vishnu Narlikar]], [[James Maynard (mathematician)|James Maynard]], [[Ken Ono]], [[Cedric Villani]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gonitsora.com/category/interviews/|title=Interviews |date =22 December 2014|accessdate=25 December 2014}}</ref> etc. to motivate the study of the subject in the young students,
#Digitizing the Assamese texts in mathematics whose copyrights are either in the public domain or expired,
#Collaborate with the Assam Academy of Mathematics to digitize their enormous mathematical content in terms of articles and books,
#Organizing and facilitating workshops for Olympiad outreach activities for the school students in the North Eastern part of India, and
#Answering queries posted on the website for the students, teachers and parents regarding mathematics, its study and problems.

==Collaborations==
The website has collaborations with the Assam Academy of Mathematics, [[Xobdo]], [[Shutterstock]],<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150505/jsp/northeast/story_18259.jsp|title=Gonitsora says maths can be fun|work=The Telegraph|date=5 May 2015|accessdate=5 May 2015| author=Smita Bhattacharyya}}</ref> [[Pravega]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://pravega.org/sponsors2014.php| title=Sponsors 2014| publisher=pravega.org| work=Pravega| accessdate=5 May 2015| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629005949/http://pravega.org/sponsors2014.php| archivedate=29 June 2015| df=dmy-all}}</ref> and Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter published by [[World Scientific]].<ref name="mps"/> It is also a magazine partner of Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mpe.dimacs.rutgers.edu/magazines/|title=Magazine Partners, Mathematics of Planet Earth|date=22 December 2014|accessdate=25 December 2014}}</ref> In collaboration with various colleges and universities in [[India]], Gonit Sora organises workshops, symposia, colloquia and seminars.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.ccsu.ac.in/admin/gallery/col24aug14_maths.pdf |title=The colloquium schedule held at Cotton College State University|date =22 December 2014|accessdate=25 December 2014}}</ref> In the past, Gonit Sora has also translated mathematics related articles from newspapers, such as ''[[The Hindu]]'' into [[Assamese language|Assamese]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|gonitsora.com}}
* {{Facebook|gonitsora}}
* {{Twitter|gonitsora}}

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[[Category:Education magazines]]
[[Category:Online magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Science and technology magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 2011]]
[[Category:Tezpur University]]
[[Category:Mathematics magazines]]
[[Category:2011 establishments in Assam]]

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