Uncover the surprising connection between Ramanujan's pi formulas and the universe. Learn how his century-old math helps explain turbulence, black holes, and more.

Ramanujan’s strange intuition about pi Srinivasa Ramanujan worked largely in isolation, yet he produced formulas for pi that still leave professional mathematicians shaking their heads. Instead of the ...

A new study links Ramanujan’s pi formulae with modern physics. (Image: Canva) A new study links Ramanujan’s pi formulae with modern physics. IISc researchers uncovered deep ties between century-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study finds that a century-old infinite series for calculating π discovered by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan can ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi) – rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits – in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

Divide any circle’s circumference by its diameter and you get pi. But what, exactly, are its digits? Measuring physical ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician ...

Physicists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have found that pure mathematical formulae used to calculate the value of pi 100 years ago by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan has ...