Srinivasa Ramanujan was a legendary Indian mathematical prodigy whose life interwove spirituality with scientific genius. Interestingly, there is a fascinating link to traditional games in his life.

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As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world’s leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a ...

Blame it on timing. When James Watt gave the term horsepower an exact-ish definition in the 1780s, he actually borrowed the math behind it from one of Isaac Newton's assistants. It was John ...

The government’s plan for a mandatory biometric E-ID card is a crisis in the making. We are told it is the path to modernity, but the government’s own actions reveal a dangerous truth: they have built ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

President Donald Trump keeps touting the fact that Walmart’s promotional Thanksgiving meal basket is cheaper this year than it was last year. But Trump hasn’t mentioned that this year’s basket is ...

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 ...

Non-qualified mortgages cater to those with nontraditional incomes or credit issues. These mortgages may offer lower initial payments but carry higher long-term costs. Non-QM loans don't meet CFPB ...

A tiny 0.1% daily gain compounds to a 44% annual return, while a 0.1% daily loss leaves you with just 69% of your starting value after one year. Volatility creates a mathematical headwind that slowly ...

The premise of Marcus du Sautoy’s Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity is that mathematics and creativitiy spring from the same well — structure. Individual numbers exist without human help.

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO ...