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 ...

Whenever someone called him a ‘genius’, Srinivasa Ramanujan used to show them his elbow. They were full of marks and small bruises. The mathematician grew up in poverty, having little money to buy ...

An intrepid foreign tourist or schoolchildren might be the only visitors to a museum on the mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan, in Chennai on any given day. This modest museum housed in a small, ...

Chennai: The recently released trailer of upcoming Tamil-English bilingual "Ramanujan", about mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, has inspired and touched the hearts of audiences who are now ...

Robert Kanigel’s acclaimed biography of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is being published in Malayalam for the first time. The translation has been done by P Ramachandra Menon, T M ...

Robert Kanigel’s acclaimed biography of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is being published in Malayalam for the first time. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will release ‘Ananthatthe ...