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The 2026 Ramanujan Prize has been awarded to Mahesh Kakde, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), for his contribution to algebraic number theory. It honours Prof. Kakde’s fundamental work on non-commutative Iwasawa theory and his outstanding research on the Gross-Stark and Brumer-Stark conjectures, with implications for Hilbert’s 12th problem — one of…
1,2,3,4,5,6,7…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..∞ The dots lead us to infinity. Or so I can say and immediately end this article here. Try imagining the highest number imaginable (which is, in layman’s terms ‘infinity’). Can you? Let’s hold that thought as it will become a crucial point of departure for our deep understanding of the infinity. The brain-melting vagueness…
Many of us are familiar with the name Srinivasa Ramanujan and his black and white photograph. He was one of India’s brightest mathematicians. In this episode we dive into his life – from struggling to pass college in Tamil Nadu to reaching the hallowed halls of Cambridge. Ramanujan’s notebooks scribbled with theorems that he discovered…
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Mathematician Krishnaswami Alladi speaking at the book release event in Chennai on Saturday. | Photo Credit: M. SRINATH The autobiography of reputed mathematician Krishnaswami Alladi titled My Mathematical Universe-People, Personalities and The Profession was launched in the city on Saturday. At the event, organised by the Chennai International Centre, Prof. Krishnaswami, who is with the…
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Point plotting on Cartesian plane. A coordinate system is a set of numbers that allows you to specify the location of a point in some space. The Cartesian coordinates is one such system, which uses a set of three numbers to specify the distance of a point from three perpendicular planes. In general, this system…