It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Man Who Knew Infinity (out Friday, April ...

‘WE are poets!’ was the answer of one great mathematician, Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891), when challenged to define the sphere of the mathematician’s activities. In the sense that a poet is a creator, ...