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 ...

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 ...

Mathematicians have found a framework for the celebrated Rogers-Ramanujan identities and their arithmetic properties, solving another long-standing mystery stemming from the work of Indian math genius ...

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While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, ...

While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new Hollywood film starring Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan will put the spotlight on the Indian math genius best known for his work on the theory of prime numbers. Ramanujan, ...

Ramanujan's formula, derived by the mathematician in 1914 when quantum theory hadn't been formulated fully, provides a faster ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...