It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave ...
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Ramanujan’s genius π formulas from a century ago might help explain the deepest secrets of the universe
In 1914, Srinivasa Ramanujan arrived at Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were strikingly efficient, producing accurate digits of the world’s most ...
‘WE are poets!’ was the answer of one great mathematician, Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891), when challenged to define the sphere of the mathematician’s activities. In the sense that a poet is a creator, ...
A Harvard mathematician and two Massachusetts graduates were chosen as 2025 MacArthur Fellows and honored with a “genius” grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, according to a ...
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