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The journey to triumph began on 1 March 2014, and lasted for 139 hours 42 minutes and 49 seconds. Professor Kamal Ghanshala, President, Graphic Era University and Vice Chancellor Professor Awasthi inaugurated this historical effort.
The lecture contents were prepared from Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Open Courseware on Computational Science (Semester 1) and Mathematical Methods (Semester 2) for graduate coursework by Professor Gilbert Strang.
The prime components of the lecture were Applied Linear Algebra,Sparse Algebra for large systems, Numerical Methods for Differential equations, Computational partial differential equations and Finite Element Methods. Matlab, a numerical computing software, was used throughout for the demonstrations and Algorithmization of numerical techniques.
The previous record was held by a Polish law Graduate Mr. Errol Muzzawazi, who lectured on democracy, at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, for 121 hours.
Arvind Mishra superseded his record on 6 March at 07:01:00 Department of Administration and Management. The entire University and national media celebrated his success and his efforts.
He further continued his lecture and embarked on setting a new benchmark. Finally, lasted for 139 hours, 42 minutes and 56 seconds and was declared concluded by Mr. Tushar on early morning of 7 March 2014.
The whole lecture was webcast live on website.
Other websites such as article.wn.com, softpedia, ibnlive, huffingtonpost, webindia. also published about this event. Guinness world records approved the claim of Mr.
Arvind Mishra of delivering world"s longest marathon lecture on 30 March 2014, and also published it on their site.
