A man solves one of the most difficult maths problems, refuses Rs 8.5 crore award and then changes his careerRussian mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the century-old Poincaré conjecture, a complex topological problem. His 2002 solution was con...
21 Dec, 2024, 02.39 PM IST
Under Putin, the uber-wealthy Russians known as 'oligarchs' are still rich but far less powerfulThe article discusses how the dynamics of power and influence have shifted among Russia's ultra-wealthy, commonly referred to as "oligarchs...
06 Dec, 2023, 01.10 PM IST
Sixty-six years after returning to Russia, mathematician is an exile once moreBrought up in France and the United States, Alexey Sossinsky moved to the land of his parents' birth in 1957 and carved out a distinguished...
26 Jul, 2023, 05.26 PM IST
'Well met. We pause, and go our separate ways'The passing of the mathematician, political activist, and science fiction writer Chandler Davis in September last year has gone unremarked ...
04 Feb, 2023, 09.23 PM IST
Rare violin made by Antonio Stradivarius in 1714 fetches $15.3 mn at New York auctionVirtuoso Toscha Seidel used this violin to teach his famous student Albert Einstein.
13 Jun, 2022, 10.35 AM IST
How this Russian billionaire shielded assets from European sanctionsAndrey Melnichenko, who made his fortune in Russia's energy industry in the years following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, gave up his ...
03 Jun, 2022, 04.12 PM IST
US sanctions on Russian oligarchs miss richest of richThe raft of sanctions on oligarchs announced by President Joe Biden this week in response to the invasion of Ukraine may do little to dim t...
26 Feb, 2022, 02.05 PM IST
Raise a toast to maths wiz Neena GuptaIndia's pool of talent in science, engineering, technology and maths should balloon, as girls shake off, inspired by Gupta, the notion that...
17 Dec, 2021, 11.32 PM IST
'Indo-Russian AI coop will reach level of defense and nuclear partnership in few years'Alexander Smolensky, Business Development Director of Zyfra explains scope of Indo-Russian cooperation in Artificial Intelligence.
20 Feb, 2020, 11.27 AM IST
Google honours Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya on 97th birth anniversary with a doodleHer influential body of work continues to have an impact till today.
07 Mar, 2019, 01.11 PM IST
Did the world's oldest woman steal her mother's identity?Two French scientists have dismissed claims that Jeanne Calment didn't really survive till 122.
04 Jan, 2019, 12.18 PM IST
Russia to welcome Indian brains, talent; two countries plan business ventures: Denis Manturov"We welcome Indian brains to Russia. We are open to high-skilled Indian workforce and help them settle down in our country," Russian Minist...
21 Mar, 2017, 06.25 AM IST
All languages skew towards happiness: StudyA team of scientists at the University of Vermont and colleagues used a massive data set of many billions of words, based on actual usage.
10 Feb, 2015, 04.32 PM IST
Eugene, It is Not That Easy to be HumanTuring proposed this in a paper called “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, and now a computer program claims that it has passed the tes...
12 Jun, 2014, 08.05 AM IST
How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?Sen might have won a Nobel Prize if string theorists were allowed to. In 1998, when he won the fellowship of the Royal Society.
19 Dec, 2013, 05.36 AM IST
Mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi served to bring the wonders of mathsA felicity with numbers not only gets as many headlines and as much TV time as the next celebrity, but movies feature in the equation too.
23 Apr, 2013, 12.05 PM IST
Viswanathan Anand symbol of India's tech prowess: Russian billionaireViswanathan Anand is the symbol of India's technological prowess and has made contribution in globalising the game, a top Russian billionai...
17 Oct, 2011, 10.08 AM IST