Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

A research team led by Maxim Kontsevich, a professor at the French Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES) and a 1998 ...

India is the homeland of many greatest Mathematicians but Srinivasa Ramanujan is someone who remains one of the most ...

National Mathematics Day is marked on December 22, the birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose work still amazes the world.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru have shown that the same mathematical structures embedded in Ramanujan’s work also appear in turbulence, percolation processes and ...

Trust in a digital product is like a door lock. The user can’t see the metal inside. But they can feel whether ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart ...

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 ...

The Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science is a refereed journal that was established in 1872 and constitutes the official publication of the Kansas Academy of Science. The Transactions is a ...

SINCE the days when the kinetic theory of gases was founded by Clausius, Maxwell and Boltzmann, great changes have taken place in the scope and bearing of the descendent theory. Taking a wide view of ...