It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave ...

Every year on December 22, India celebrates National Mathematics Day to mark the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a man whose ideas arrived decades before the world was ready to understand ...

Ramanujan was an Indian mathematical genius who failed out of college because he refused to study non-mathematical subjects.By every academic rule we use today, Srinivasa Ramanujan was a failure. He ...

Lone genius? Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is the latest to get the scientific biopic treatment. The self-taught Indian mathematician Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan has long been a hero in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Man Who Knew Infinity (out Friday, April ...

Every December 22, India celebrates National Mathematics Day as a comfortable tribute to Srinivasa Ramanujan: A genius remembered, a nation proud, a few school competitions, a poster or two. But ...