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 ...

On December 22, 1887, Srinivasa Ramanujan was born to a poor family in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India. From humble and obscure beginnings, he blossomed into one of the greatest mathematical ...

Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons play real-life mathematicians in this plodding, overly dutiful biopic. Audiences hoping to learn more about Ramanujan’s contributions to number theory, continued fractions ...

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 ...

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN was a mathematician like no other. He had almost no formal training yet produced some of the most stunning mathematical results of all time. This month marks the 100th anniversary ...

Karl Mahlburg, a young mathematician, has solved a crucial chunk of a puzzle that has haunted number theorists since the math legend Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his revolutionary notions into a ...

In his small Indian village, the child Ramanujan asks: “What is small?... What is big?” He contemplates this problem in creative ways: “A mango is like an egg. It is just one thing. But if I chop it ...

Dr. Chandrashekhar B. Khare, a mathematician by qualification and music aficionado at heart, creatively recounts his ...

Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons play real-life mathematicians in this plodding, overly dutiful biopic. Audiences hoping to learn more about Ramanujan’s contributions to number theory, continued fractions ...