Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or ...

Important update, Jan. 17 at 18:00 UTC: There have been a lot of objections raised about the video mentioned below and the way I describe the math therein. It’s more than I can simply add or update ...

Yesterday, I posted an article about a math video that showed how you can sum up an infinite series of numbers to get a result of, weirdly enough, -1/12. A lot of stuff happened after I posted it.

It's been a while since I wrote a post in this series, but since I've been teaching Calculus 2 this term the time is right. This all began when a former student wrote to ask how we know that those ...

India is the homeland of many greatest Mathematicians but Srinivasa Ramanujan is someone who remains one of the most ...