Mahesh Kakde wins the 2026 Ramanujan Prize, spotlighting his groundbreaking work in algebraic number theory and maths ...

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

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, ...

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 development of mathematics in the Indian subcontinent is a remarkable blend of the familiar and the unique. The Indian decimal place-value numeral system, which is the foundation of the modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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, ...

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 ...