{"id":1019929,"date":"2026-07-10T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019929"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:30:41","slug":"jee-ranker-from-new-town-bets-on-math-in-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/10\/jee-ranker-from-new-town-bets-on-math-in-age-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"JEE ranker from New Town bets on math in age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Konar has ranked fourth in West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination. He is quite certain of landing a seat in the computer science department at Jadavpur University. But the boy from Greenfield Heights is opting for IIT Kharagpur instead. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are offering a Bachelor of Science course in mathematics and computing. In the face of the emergence of AI, it is not enough to go for computer science. I need a strong foundation in mathematics too. My father, a computer engineer, feels this will be the top branch in near future. It will allow me to choose among careers in finance, AI and computer science,\u201d said the boy, whose JEE (Advanced) rank is a highly creditable 1277.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Konar has ranked fourth in West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination. He is quite certain of landing a seat in the computer science department at Jadavpur University. But the boy from Greenfield Heights is opting for IIT Kharagpur instead. \u201cThey are offering a Bachelor of Science course in mathematics and computing. In the face of the emergence of AI, it is not enough to go for computer science. I need a strong foundation in mathematics too. My father, a computer engineer, feels this will be the top branch in near future. It will allow me to choose among careers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019948,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019929\/revisions\/1019948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}