Every year December 22, is celebrated in regard to numbers, intuition, and sheer brilliance as we mark National Mathematics Day in honour of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the great Indian mathematician. He was ...

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today. One afternoon in January 2011, Hussein Mourtada leapt onto his ...

Fresh off the success of Aamir Khan starrer "Sitaare Zameen Par," director R.S. Prasanna is developing a biopic on legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, positioning the project as a ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan—who tragically died in 1920 at the age of 32—was one of the greatest minds in ...

[Table of Contents] -- Introduction -- Ramanujan: A Puzzle -- Super-Activity Period 1: 1907 to 1911 -- Economic Sufficiency -- University Setting -- Ramanujan's Life Abroad -- Super-Activity Period 2: ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fresh off the success of Aamir Khan starrer “Sitaare Zameen Par,” director R.S. Prasanna is developing a biopic on legendary ...

Fresh off the success of Aamir Khan starrer “Sitaare Zameen Par,” director R.S. Prasanna is developing a biopic on legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, positioning the project as a ...