On a winter morning nearly 100 years ago, GH Hardy, 35, Cambridge’s rising star in mathematics, received a 10-page ‘Dear Sir’ letter from an Indian clerk, filled with theorems. Some of them suggested ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan ought be a household name just like Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, believes Ken Ono, the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics at Emory University and vice-president of ...

Dev Patel (right) plays the mathematics genius in Matt Brown's new film. Robert Kanigel’s book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life Of The Genius Ramanujan traces the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, born ...

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 elliptical ...

For many people, mathematics is a word that evokes feelings of awe. They remember the subject from their school days as a world difficult to get into, the finer points of which they never understood.