Dr Lepa Batev digs deep into ancient civilization to research her book
A total of 12 years later, the book is completed and several drafts were sent to the publisher’s language editor, Ms Pat Botes, since changing, adding and sometimes rewriting also took place.
What do you get when you have a medical practitioner and academic, with an interest in the Mayan-culture, applying logic to numbers.
A book called ‘Ultimate Bliss with Numbers’ by Dr Lepa Batev of Standerton.
The mother of two has not been practicing medicine for the past 10 years after two decades’ experience.
“I spent my time learning and writing about numbers, mathematics and applied mathematics,” Lepa said.
“My knowledge of mathematics was limited to high school learning.”
Her passion for numbers, mathematical philosophy, classical and quantum physics was inspired by a civilization dating back to A.D. 250 to 900.
“The Maya did it for me and their calendar among others caught my eye at one time.
“They are the only people on the planet who systematically charted kairos (right time) and correlated it with chronos (measurable, chronological time).”
Lepa put her energies into trying to figure out the Mayan-way of counting the calendar days, using their 20-base system.
“It wasn’t just fun, but helped me cope with health issues that stopped me from working.”
Writing the calendar by mistake, she got the table that didn’t have any connection with the Mayan calendar, but it took her attention and was her obsession for years.
This change in her life coincided with her children being ready to spread their wings and a career change was on the cards.
A total of 12 years later, the book is completed and several drafts were sent to the publisher’s language editor, Ms Pat Botes, since changing, adding and sometimes rewriting also took place. “The book has had a thousand versions and final versions.”
She also translated the manuscript to Serbian, a task that took six months.
The Serbian wife of the Macedonian surgeon, Dr Nick Batev of Standerton, has been in town for 29 years.
She is a graduate of Belgrade University’s faculty of medical science, now Serbia and specialised in internal medicine at the same university.
Both of them worked for several years in the Standerton Hospital and Lepa recalled the hospital years quite fondly.
“I enjoy medical care albeit sometimes challenging.”
Towards the end of the interview Lepa painstakingly, but animatedly explained the graphs and numbers of some of her research.
Lepa is of the opinion that the language of mathematics could be universal and with the drawings on the wall of Einstein and Tesla looking on, she calculated again and again.
The Serbian version is in the publishing-stage and the English one will be available soon afterwards.
The result of learning, discovering and rediscovering was a book with the goal to inspire the world with numbers.
