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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today. One afternoon in January 2011, Hussein Mourtada leapt onto his ...

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 ...

The Punjab School of Mathematics, originating from Sarvadaman Chowla's 1925 paper, celebrates its centenary alongside Prof.

MR. G. R. KAYE'S booklet gives a summary of the actual contents of Indian mathematical works, translations of original passages, an approximate chronology, and a bibliography. The net result of recent ...

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) ...