The first of this two-part series gave a broad social overview of Bihar’s caste composition and the caste composition of NDA ...

Number theory is the branch of mathematics that deals with the properties of whole numbers. Many number theorists are motivated purely by mathematical intrigue, and historically number theory had few ...

Number theory, the study of the properties of positive integers, is perhaps the purest form of mathematics. At first sight, it may seem far too abstract to apply to the natural world. In fact, the ...

On October 27, HT launched a complete caste database – it has been prepared by the first author of this story – of Bihar’s 3,629 MLAs from 1962 onwards in these pages. The methodology and possible ...

On his way to winning a Fields Medal, James Maynard has cut a path through simple-sounding questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries. Number theorists, however, ...