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

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the mathematics.” ...

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

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today. One afternoon in January 2011, Hussein Mourtada leapt onto his ...

National Mathematics Day honors Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught genius born in 1887. His groundbreaking work on series and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Dev Patel tackles numbers and formulas in "The Man Who Knew Infinity", a biopic looking at the life of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The drama follows the ...

Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons play real-life mathematicians in this plodding, overly dutiful biopic. Audiences hoping to learn more about Ramanujan’s contributions to number theory, continued fractions ...

EXCLUSIVE: Based on the nonfiction book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel, the film charts the career of Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, a self-taught ...

“THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY” — 3½ stars— Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam; PG-13 (thematic elements and smoking); in general release Math is seldom the most popular or ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The story follows Ramanujan going to Cambridge, leaving his wife (Devika Bhise) and family behind, after math professor G.H. Hardy ...

Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons play real-life mathematicians in this plodding, overly dutiful biopic. Audiences hoping to learn more about Ramanujan’s contributions to number theory, continued fractions ...