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India's scientific legacy is both vast and profound. Long before the rise of modern science, ancient Indian sages, ...
Vijaya Bhaskara Rao measures cloud-transformation success by the silences it produces: incidents that never happen, critical bridges that stay empty, and product teams that focus on features ...
A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers ...
A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve. The equations are fundamental to maths as well as science, where they have broad ...
How could a non-mathematician even imagine such achievements ... Srinivasa Ramanujan will be remembered alongside other luminaries such as Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara. The author is ...
Acclaimed Chinese-American mathematician Huaxin Lin has returned to China for a full-time research position in Shanghai after nearly four decades in the United States. The 69-year-old joined the ...
By that criterion, Bhaskara’s problem exercises excite a real passion for mathematics. Who, but one with an adamantine heart, can resist the call of a verse such as this: “Whilst making love a ...
Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at the university ETH Zurich, studies optimal transport: the most efficient allocation of starting points to end points. The scope of investigation is wide ...
The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication.
National Mathematics Day in India is celebrated every year on December 22, marking the birth anniversary of the legendary mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In 2012, then Prime Minister Dr ...
Russian mathematician and political prisoner Azat Miftakhov has been placed in solitary confinement for seven days. According to a support group for Miftakhov, the decision came after he reported ...
"Some mathematicians have this rare intellect," Tiep said of Brauer. "It's as though they came from another planet or from another world. They are capable of seeing hidden phenomena that others ...