Uncover the surprising connection between Ramanujan's pi formulas and the universe. Learn how his century-old math helps explain turbulence, black holes, and more.

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician ...

Dec. 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns without the use of proofs or modern ...

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 ...

Need proof that genius arises in unexpected places? Consider the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Between 1913 and 1920, this impoverished clerk from South India—a two-time college ...

Most people first learn about the number π (pi) in school, usually when studying circles. It is often written as 3.14, but this is just an approximation. In reality, pi is an irrational number, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study finds that a century-old infinite series for calculating π discovered by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan can ...