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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study finds that a century-old infinite series for calculating π discovered by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan can ...

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Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

Let's explore how the Pythagorean theorem was known and applied in India centuries before Pythagoras, highlighting a poetic geometry problem from Bhāskara II’s Līlāvatī. It traces the theorem’s ...

Fresh off the success of Aamir Khan starrer “Sitaare Zameen Par,” director R.S. Prasanna is developing a biopic on legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, positioning the project as a ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi) – rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits – in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

A new study finds that a century-old infinite series for calculating π discovered by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan can be applied in other corners of physics. The study explained that ...