Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.
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 Life of the Genius Ramanujan is a biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, written in 1991 by Robert Kanigel. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his ...
Akshay Venkatesh has been called a child prodigy and by some colleagues, a universal mathematician. The title the Fields medallist is least comfortable with is “genius”. Speaking to Quanta Magazine at ...