In the 1930s, a group of young French mathematicians led an uprising that revolutionized mathematics. France had lost most of a generation in the First World War, so the emerging hotshots in ...
THOMAS HARRIOT: A Life in Science. By Robyn Arianrhod. Oxford University Press. 352 pages. $29.95. Lost in the mists of history until comparatively recently was the Elizabethan- and Jacobean-era ...
India is the homeland of many greatest Mathematicians but Srinivasa Ramanujan is someone who remains one of the most ...
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The Hardy–Ramanujan number: What 1729 reveals about Srinivasa Ramanujan, even to non-mathematicians
We explore the Hardy–Ramanujan number to explain two things about the legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, on ...
Mathematics is traditionally a solitary science. In 1986 Andrew Wiles withdrew to his study for seven years to prove Fermat’s theorem. The resulting proofs are often difficult for colleagues to ...
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