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 ...

Ramanujan was an Indian mathematical genius who failed out of college because he refused to study non-mathematical subjects.By every academic rule we use today, Srinivasa Ramanujan was a failure. He ...

Docile interest in literature and the classics gave way to boredom; his mathematical genius was already stirring. His teacher advised that he be demoted. Évariste’s father objected, and the boy ...