While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

Divakaran showcased the radicalism of Indian mathematicians, noting Aryabhata may have been a “godless secularist” as his writings do not invoke Hindu gods. Physicist and the country’s pre-eminent ...

The old Class 7 textbook did not contain any reference to ancient Indian mathematicians. NCERT has been bringing out new ...

A new Ramanujan Junior Researchers programme, backed by India’s Department for Science and Technology (DST), will bring some of the country’s brightest young theoretical physicists and mathematicians ...

The University Grants Commission’s draft mathematics curriculum, 2025, unveiled in August, has sparked a debate around its skewed emphasis on ancient knowledge systems over core subjects. Designed for ...

NCERT aims to provide accurate historical context in math education, moving away from colonial perspectives in line with NEP ...

The University Grants Commission’s draft mathematics curriculum, 2025, unveiled in August, has sparked a debate around its skewed emphasis on ancient knowledge systems over core subjects. Designed for ...