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 ...

India has a rich ancient history of great achievements in mathematics which has been disseminated in the world and has led different civilisations. Since Indian mathematicians came up with the ...

Ramanujan was an Indian mathematical genius who failed out of college because he refused to study non-mathematical subjects.By every academic rule we use today, Srinivasa Ramanujan was a failure. He ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan grew up poor in India with no formal university training in mathematics. Yet the formulas he mailed to Cambridge stunned some of the greatest minds of the time. G.H. Hardy ...

Stars Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons and director Matthew Brown stop by the WSJ Cafe to share the inside story of the new movie "The Man Who Knew Infinity" and discuss why the story of the Indian math ...