Chapter 3

Rahul and Shreyas were the graph theory resource persons for the camp they were being to. It was scheduled to be held in Indian Statistical Institute Delhi. It was a camp for the first year students from the various IIT’s. The kind of students in the area were extremely brilliant ones. They were ardent problem solvers, waiting to be introduced into the kind of mathematics researchers do. The first class, the very first class handled by Rahul, had them in high spirits. Rahul was an extremely student friendly teacher. His methodology was the kind of methodology which every student liked, Morever, the camp did not have too many students, which allowed Rahul implement his strategy of applying one to one attention to every student.

Shreyas was the more formal type teacher. He covered the concepts in thorough detail before actually jumping into doing problems. But he was extremely humorous and jovial in his approach, and this had the students rooting for him too. In effect, Rahul and Shreyas had taken their place as the most popular teaching duo among the students of the camp. Especially a group of 7 students from Bangalore and Chennai were special to the duo. They showed a lot of affection on the teachers, and above everything, saw to it that the two of them joined them while playing badminton in the evening. Days went by in minutes, hours in seconds, and the camp was a lot of fun. At around this juncture, there was this student from Bangalore, by name Abhinav, who wanted permission for his brother to attend the camp. Apparently, his brother was a math student, who had to discontinue do to family problems, and as he was an enthusiast in graph theory, he wanted to come and try his hand at it. Rahul and Shreyas accepted and asked him to get his brother to their cabin.