The movie The Man Who Knew Infinity is about Srinivasa Ramanujan, who is generally viewed by mathematicians as one of the two most romantic figures in our discipline. (I shall say more about the other ...

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 ...

In 1914, Srinivasa Ramanujan arrived at Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were strikingly efficient, producing accurate digits of the world’s most ...

Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now mathematicians at Emory ...

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN was a mathematician like no other. He had almost no formal training yet produced some of the most stunning mathematical results of all time. This month marks the 100th anniversary ...

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 ...

A new study links Ramanujan’s pi formulae with modern physics. (Image: Canva) A new study links Ramanujan’s pi formulae with modern physics. IISc researchers uncovered deep ties between century-old ...

Throughout the history of mathematics, there has been no one remotely like Srinivasa Ramanujan. There is no doubt that he was a great mathematician, but had he had simply a good university education ...