Mathematical constant are really exciting and wonderful in the world of numbers. All numbers are not created equal; that certain constants appear at all and then echo throughout mathematics, in...
Professor Mahan Mj is a young geometric topologist at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, who combines an esoteric career as a research mathematician and teacher with that of a monk. He...
1. What lie did the British mathematician Hardy give to the Scotland Yard once in order to save Ramanujan from an arrest? 2. What famous inequation did Hardy give once regarding...
Kannan Soundararajan, a professor of mathematics at the Stanford University has won this year’s prestigious Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences. His prize citation reads Prof. Kannan Soundararajan has made fundamental contributions...
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” —Arthur Schopenhauer ‘Genius’ seems to be a very small word. We use it...
Over a hundred years back, in the year 1901, a little boy took admission into a primary school located at Hagurigaon (Harihar Gaon) near Pathsala district in Assam. It would be...
Every Indian, no matter whatever is his mathematical prowess or his profession knows about a certain gentleman born in Erode, Tamil Nadu on 22nd December 1887 – S. Ramanujan. The modern...
The gigantic leap in the twentieth century mathematics was the outcome of two major events. The first belonged to the historic Presidential keynote address by the celebrated German mathematician Prof David...