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 ...

India has a rich ancient history of great achievements in mathematics which has been disseminated in the world and has led ...

National Mathematics Day honors Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught genius born in 1887. His groundbreaking work on series and partitions, despite lacking formal proofs, captivated mathematicians like ...

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 ...

Every year on December 22, India observes National Mathematics Day to commemorate the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician whose life and work continue to hover between legend and rigorous ...

I have often pondered at a statement emanating from the 19th century French mathematical genius Evariste Galois. I recall with distaste that the best French mat ...

Stars Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons and director Matthew Brown stop by the WSJ Cafe to share the inside story of the new movie "The Man Who Knew Infinity" and discuss why the story of the Indian math ...