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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Man Who Knew Infinity (out Friday, April ...

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 ...