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

Mathematical formulas written over a hundred years ago could find an echo in the most current theories about black holes and ...

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

Indian scientists have unearthed a surprising connection between Srinivasa Ramanujan's 1914 pi formulas and modern physics, ...

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

Black holes exist in our universe. That’s widely accepted today. Physicists have detected the X-rays emitted when black holes feed, analyzed the gravitational waves from black hole collisions and even ...

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 ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

"Even the +, −, =, and x signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in ...

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Celebrate National Mathematics Day on December 22, honouring Srinivasa Ramanujan's legacy. Discover how math extends beyond ...

Many books about science are meant to be pleasure reading. Such books attempt to convey the wonder and fascination and excitement of science, and ideally some of the substance as well. After all, good ...