Why December 22nd is designated as Mathematics Day?Born on December 22, 1887, eminent mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan made significant contributions to the field that helped to solve a num...
22 Dec, 2022, 02.31 PM IST
Google Doodle honours Satyendra Nath Bose, the Indian physicist who sent his quantum findings to Albert EinsteinGoogle Doodle: In honour of Bose’s legacy, any particle that conforms with his statistics today is known as a 'boson'.
04 Jun, 2022, 12.03 PM IST
Vedic mathematics to be introduced in Gujarat schoolsEducation Minister Jitu Vaghani made the announcement on Wednesday on the birth anniversary of the renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa ...
23 Dec, 2021, 07.05 PM IST
Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, along with 2 others, wins top US prize for cracking longstanding Ramanujan graphsSrivastava shares the prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Alan Spielman.
25 Jan, 2021, 11.07 AM IST
Analysts see Indians gaining from new UK Visa programme for researchersThe Global Talent Visa does not cap the number of beneficiaries and will offer researchers a flexible immigration route to the UK. It repla...
29 Jan, 2020, 08.16 AM IST
Vice President all-praises for Hrithik Roshan in 'Super 30', actor thanks Naidu on Twitter'Super 30' chronicles the journey of Indian mathematician Anand Kumar.
18 Jul, 2019, 11.52 AM IST
India-born eminent mathematician VS Varadarajan, wife Veda give $1 mn to UCLAThe couple want to establish a professorship honouring Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
07 Mar, 2019, 03.04 PM IST
All the sines of a new father of trianglesAncient Indian and Chinese mathematicians who also independently arrived at the same conclusions make up the other points of this triangula...
26 Aug, 2017, 10.53 AM IST
India, UNESCO to hold maths conferences in Paris, BangaloreIndia and UNESCO today agreed to jointly hold mathematics conferences on the concept of zero in Paris, the headquarters of the world body, ...
21 Dec, 2015, 10.37 PM IST
Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar first to identify Everest as highest mountain peakIndian mathematician and surveyor Radhanath Sikdar was probably the first person to identify that Mount Everest was the world's highest pea...
01 Jun, 2015, 04.10 PM IST
Benjamin Netanyahu lauds India's science prowess"My uncle, who was a mathematician, always used to tell me that the best mathematicians came from India", Netanyahu told Rajnath Singh.
07 Nov, 2014, 10.38 AM IST
- Indian-origin mathematician elected new president of ICSU
Reddy has been voted by representatives of ICSU's 120 national members and scientific unions attending the organisation's General Assembly ...
07 Sep, 2014, 04.42 PM IST
How to raise Indian standards in MathematicsWhen outstanding mathematicians return to their countries, they educate another generation of young mathematicians and thus raise the stand...
28 Aug, 2014, 06.02 AM IST
Math teaching in India is robotic, make it creative: Manjul BhargavaTheorist Manjul Bhargava, who recently won the Fields Medal, said that there is math in everything from music to poetry, & Indian children ...
17 Aug, 2014, 04.55 PM IST
Indian-origin Manjul Bhargava wins Fields Medal for MathematicsBhargava’s Indian connections are deep even in mathematics. His first major work, actually his PhD thesis, cited the work of only a few mat...
14 Aug, 2014, 01.30 AM IST
- Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava named joint winner of 2014 George Polya Prize
Experts are of the opinion that the implications of this breakthrough could be significant.
10 Jul, 2014, 06.54 PM IST
The effect of short supply of world-class mathematicians felt in Indian R&D workWorld-class mathematicians are in short supply, and the effect is felt in Indian R&D work. Hope now rests on newish institutes that are att...
05 Feb, 2012, 03.01 AM IST