While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years ...

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN was a mathematician like no other. He had almost no formal training yet produced some of the most stunning mathematical results of all time. This month marks the 100th ...

In the world of mathematics, Srinvasa Ramanujan had a beautiful mind. The 23-year-old was an uneducated bank clerk in the Indian city of Madras when, in 1913, he wrote a nine-page letter to ...

Amid Ramanujan’s prodigious output, these statements stand out. They have carried through the decades and across nearly all of mathematics. They are the seeds that mathematicians continue to sow, ...

Dec. 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns without the use of proofs or modern ...

Previous attempts have only provided approximations or relied on “crazy infinite sums”, says Ken Ono at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.. Pattern in partition. Ramanujan’s approximate ...

Born in 1887 in what is now Tamil Nadu in India, Ramanujan was a self-taught mathematician. He often claimed that his results came to him in a dream, and disliked the formal proofs favoured by ...

Ramanujan died in 1920, long before mathematicians discovered the K3 surfaces, but from research done by Ono and Trebat Leder, it transpires that he knew of these functions long before.

Actor Dev Patel as he attends “The Man Who Knew Infinity” premiere during day four of the 12th annual Dubai International Film Festival held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.