Education Plus Research China’s Ramanujan finds prime number gap Yitang Zhang achieves breakthrough in solving the longstanding problem of twin prime conjecture Updated - May 24, 2013 03:10 am IST ...

Ramanujan used an elliptic curve -- a cubic equation and two variables where the largest degree is 3 -- to produce infinitely many solutions that were nearly counter examples to Fermat's Last Theorem.

As numbers go, 1729, the Hardy-Ramanujan number, is not new to math enthusiasts. But now, this number has triggered a major discovery — on Ramanujan and the theory of what are known as ...