A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Pythagoras’ reflection on harmony highlights his belief that the natural world operates through mathematical structure. His observations connected the patterns behind musical sound with the larger ...

The mathematical reasoning model performed as well as humans at prestigious international mathematics competitions.

Ancient Mesopotamian scribes solved the world’s first recorded algebraic equation on clay tablets. Their methods laid the foundation for symbolic mathematics and influenced many modern sciences.

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Mathematics education in the country can do with a pedagogical fix, not re-orientation of the curriculum towards the past PREMIUM The purpose of university education is to familiarise students with ...

On 20 August, the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued a notice under its ‘Learning Outcomes-based Curriculum Framework’ (LOCF), aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Among the ...

The curriculum combines astronomy, mythology, and mathematics, covering ancient observatories. Ancient Indian knowledge systems like Kala Ganpana (traditional timekeeping), Bharatiya Bijganit (Indian ...

The UGC’s draft curriculum under NEP 2020 proposes the inclusion of ancient Indian knowledge in undergraduate mathematics. Students will study Kala Ganpana (traditional Indian timekeeping), Bharatiya ...

Kolkata: A day after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president and Rajya Sabha MP Shamik Bhattacharya raised questions over ‘Vedic Mathematics’, MoS Education Sukanta Majumdar mentioned that the ...