Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese genius flexed his mathematical prowess by solving a problem that flummoxed a team of mathematicians with Ph.D.s for four ...

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 ...

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 ...