Maths is perceived as a subject divorced from beauty, but an experiment proved the converse is true—establishing a deep connection between the twoWe may not consciously acknowledge beauty in mathematics. Yet often the things we find beauty in actually have mathematics underlying them
6 min read22 Aug 2019Who would have thought that the Heegner numbers would take in names from Gauss to Gardner, Chudnovsky to Ramanujan, Euler to Patnaik?There are, I’ll have you know, exactly nine Heegner numbers. Not less, not more. Those nine Heegner numbers are 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 19, 43, 67 and 163
7 min read12 Apr 2019Based on an upcoming video game, 'Antariksha Sanchar' is a sci-fi Bharatnatyam opera that celebrates South India's cultural heritage
3 min read30 Nov 2018Janaki said to great scholars from abroad, the chief thing she remembered about her beloved Ramanujan was that he was always surrounded by sums and problems
5 min read23 Apr 2018Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Srinivasa Ramanujan is one of the greatest mathematicians of all times
1 min read5 Jul 2017Srinivasa Ramanujan 'found exquisite forms among powers of numbers', and 'he revelled in his friendship with numbers'
4 min read10 Feb 2017Many Indian discoveries have been wrongly attributed to European scholars
4 min read3 May 2016The film 'Nil Battey Sannata' could have been
4 min read30 Apr 2016This autobiographical book by mathematician Ken Ono is less a memoir than an examination of what matters and what doesn't
4 min read11 Apr 2016Whatever inferences you might draw from a finitude of numbers, you should be prepared to toss them when you have an infinity of numbers
4 min read13 Feb 2014The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared