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 ...

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 ...

Physicist and the country’s pre-eminent math historian, PP Divakaran, who died recently in Kochi, was a cherished friend of mine for over six decades. We first met at the Tata Institute of Fundamental ...

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Born in Kanpur in 1923, he began his academic career as a physicist and earned his doctorate at the University of Cambridge ...

Award-winning Indian mathematician on the possibilities and limitations of using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve some of the most famous maths problems in the world. Plus, why she's excited ...

Her groundbreaking work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem, a longstanding question in algebraic geometry first posed by renowned mathematician Oscar Zariski, earned her international recognition and ...