Ramanujan's formula, derived by the mathematician in 1914 when quantum theory hadn't been formulated fully, provides a faster ...

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 later, ...

I n August, the University Grants Commission (UGC) released the draft undergraduate curriculum for nine subjects, including ...

That collaboration had brought Ramanujan to England in 1913, with their joint insights now occupying a central place in modern mathematics. “Our Ramanujan Junior Researchers programme will act as a ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

Divakaran showcased the radicalism of Indian mathematicians, noting Aryabhata may have been a “godless secularist” as his writings do not invoke Hindu gods. Physicist and the country’s pre-eminent ...

A new Ramanujan Junior Researchers programme, backed by India’s Department for Science and Technology (DST), will bring some ...

Mathematics education in India must stay strongly focused on areas that directly contribute to employability, research ...

Rain and Rainbows: Taiwan Celebrates Pride as Hong Kong’s LGBTQ Rights Stall The focus on Indian knowledge systems in the UGC’s proposed mathematics curriculum is better suited to other disciplines ...

BENGALURU: Many academics, former vice-chancellors and professors from various colleges have opposed the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Learning Outcomes-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) ...