How many times have you heard that the U.S. needs students who are good at math in order to produce more engineers and compete with those in India? Yet, as Duriya Aziz, Senior Vice President, ...

When Vijaya Kumar Murthy first received an email from Abhishek Lodha in 2024 to lead the Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute (LMSI) in Mumbai, he thought it was a fraud. A famous Indian realtor was ...

PISA 2025 results show global performance in math, reading, and science of 15-year-olds from 91 countries, excluding India which did not participate.

It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian ...

The brief life of Indian math prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan was so compelling that it even transcends the capable but straightforward filmmaking of “The Man Who Knew Infinity.” It’s the terrific story ...

Vedic Mathematics traces its origins to the ancient Indian scriptures known as the Vedas, which are the oldest texts of Indian philosophy and knowledge, dating back to 1500–500 BCE. The term “Vedic” ...

An interactive exhibition at the UN in Nairobi, 'From Shunya to Ananta', highlights India's key contributions to mathematics, including the concept of zero and the decimal system, and how these ideas ...

In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills: They can quickly perform a range of calculations to complete transactions. But as a new study shows, these kids often perform much ...

Any account of the classical sciences of India must begin with mathematics, for, as the ancient Sanskrit text Vedanga Jyotisa (ca. fourth century B.C.E.) says, Like the crest on the peacock’s head, ...

The brief life of Indian math prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan was so compelling that it even transcends the capable but straightforward filmmaking of "The Man Who Knew Infinity." It's the terrific story ...

In India, many kids who work in retail markets have good math skills. They can quickly perform a range of calculations to complete transactions. But as a new study shows, these kids often perform much ...