In April, on the 100th anniversary of Ramanujan’s arrival in Cambridge, the source of his equations was finally found. Ken Ono of Emory University, his graduate student Michael Griffin, and their ...

Need proof that genius arises in unexpected places? Consider the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Between 1913 and 1920, this impoverished clerk from South India—a two-time college ...

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is known for creating over 3,900 identities and equations in his short life of 32 years, earning him the nickname 'The Magician of India.' Ramanujan's ...

Ramanujan lives on, not just in equations, but in the eternal quest for knowledge he so passionately embodied. He is, and always will be, mathematics’ guiding flame.

Srinivasa Ramanujan was a believer in mysticism and a mathematical genius. As a new film is screened on his life, Indian mathematicians grapple with this complex equation. On a winter morning ...

In Ramanujan’s last letter to G H Hardy, dated January 12, 1920, he had written, “I discovered very interesting functions recently, which I call ‘mock theta-functions’.