National Mathematics Day: Has India’s Tribute to Ramanujan Actually Changed Anything?
December 22 marks National Mathematics Day in India, honoring Srinivasa Ramanujan's birthday. Declared by PM Manmohan Singh in 2012, the…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Complete Elementary Analysis of Ramanujan’s Nested radicals
I wrote this analysis in 2010 at age 17, obsessed with Ramanujan's nested radicals while studying under the INSPIRE-SHE scholarship.…
National Mathematical Year 2012: What India Promised Ramanujan and What It Actually Delivered
In December 2011, India declared 2012 as National Mathematical Year to honor Ramanujan's 125th birthday. I wrote at the time…
Solving Ramanujan’s Puzzling Problem
Ramanujan's nested radical problem looks impossible at first glance. Infinitely many nested square roots, each multiplied by increasing integers. How…