University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the ...

The Indian mathematician's work is vast but he is particularly ... The number 4, for example, has five partitions because it can be expressed in five ways, including 4, 3+1, 2+2, 1+1+2, and ...

Mahaviracharya was 8th century Indian mathematician (Jain) from Gulbarga who asserted that the square root of a negative number did not exist. - He also gave a sum of series whose terms are ...

While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan ... "For a brief window of time, five years, he lit the world of math on fire," Ono told LiveScience.

From a town in India and with limited formal ... After Ramanujan drafted letters to leading mathematicians at Cambridge University, he spent nearly five years in Cambridge studying with famous ...

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is known for creating over 3,900 identities and equations in his short life of 32 years, earning him the nickname 'The Magician of India.' Ramanujan's ...

Researchers have finally solved the cryptic deathbed puzzle renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan claimed came to him in dreams. While on his death-bed in 1920, Ramanujan wrote a ...