Uthaya Kumar remembers it like it was yesterday – the heartbreak of failing both modern mathematics and additional mathematics in his SPM. Numbers didn’t add up for him, and his teachers were too ...

IISER Kolkata in Haringhata, near Kalyani, organised a public lecture last week featuring two eminent mathematicians, M. Ram Murty and V. Kumar Murty, to inspire young minds to pursue maths and ...