In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

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Ramanujan’s century-old pi formula is finding new relevance in modern physics, with scientists linking his mathematics to ...

It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 ...

Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru have shown that the same mathematical structures embedded in Ramanujan’s work also appear in turbulence, percolation processes and ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart ...

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