December 22, 2012, marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. An intuitive mathematical genius, Ramanujan's discoveries have influenced several ...

The number 1729 is one of my favorites. To mathematicians it is known as the “taxicab of 2.” The story of how it got that name is one of the great legends in modern mathematics. It is told again in ...

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is known for creating over 3,900 identities and equations in his short life of 32 years, earning him the nickname 'The Magician of India.' Ramanujan's numerous ...

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 ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of India's greatest mathematical minds, saw numbers not just as symbols but as expressions of a ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote down a set of formulas to calculate the ...

(Phys.org)—December 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for somehow intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns and connections without ...

Need proof that genius arises in unexpected places? Consider the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Between 1913 and 1920, this impoverished clerk from South India—a two-time college ...

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Professor Gerald Lambeau: You ever heard of Ramanujan? Dr. Sean Maguire:... no. Lambeau: … lived over 100 years ago. He was Indian, dot (pointing to forehead). Maguire: Not feathers, yeah. Lambeau: He ...