The number 1729 is one of my favorites. To mathematicians it is known as the “taxicab of 2.” The story of how it got that name is one of the great legends in modern mathematics. It is told again in ...
In January 1913, a young Indian clerk in Madras (now Chennai) mailed a thick letter to a famous British mathematician, G. H. Hardy, at Cambridge. The writer Srinivasa Ramanujan said he had no ...
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Ramanujan’s π equations are helping physicists decode nature
More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...
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