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 ...

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 ...

Most people first learn about the number π (pi) in school, usually when studying circles. It is often written as 3.14, but this is just an approximation. In reality, pi is an irrational number, ...

A new study finds that a century-old infinite series for calculating π discovered by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan can be applied in other corners of physics. The study explained that ...

A new study links Ramanujan’s pi formulae with modern physics. (Image: Canva) A new study links Ramanujan’s pi formulae with modern physics. IISc researchers uncovered deep ties between century-old ...

Physicists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have found that pure mathematical formulae used to calculate the value of pi 100 years ago by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan has ...

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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 ...

Every year on December 22, India celebrates National Mathematics Day, commemorating the birth anniversary of the legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. This observance, officially declared by ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study finds that a century-old infinite series for calculating π discovered by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan can be applied in other ...