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 ...

Aryabhata is considered one of the great mathematicians and astronomers of ancient India. He presented the concept of zero as a placeholder and developed a decimal system upon which modern arithmetic ...

Kamla Bhatt has a podcast – on Mathematics and Ramanujan. “Professor Freeman Dyson talks about Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan, the famous Indian mathematician. Prof. Dyson studied under Prof. GH Hardy in ...

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 ...

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s S.V. Vidyalaya celebrated National Mathematics Day commemorating the birth anniversary of famous Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in Tirupati on Monday. The programme ...

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 ...