More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

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

The Formula MAX app boasts a collection of 492 physics, 331 chemistry, and 370 math formulas and definitions. To do a bit of my own math here, that’s a total of 1,193 formulas/definitions…not too ...

A team of physicists, geologists and signal theorists from the University of Granada, Spain, has developed a machine-learning-based algorithm designed to predict when Mount St. Helens will erupt. A ...

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

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or investigating turbulence.

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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 ...

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa. In 1912, Albert Einstein, then a 33-year-old theoretical physicist at the Eidgenössische Technische ...

In 1655 the English mathematician John Wallis published a book in which he derived a formula for pi as the product of an infinite series of ratios. Now researchers, in a surprise discovery, have found ...

In one of David Lodge's comic novels about academia, the English-professor characters play a game called "Humiliation," where they take turns admitting classic works of literature that they haven't ...

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