India will celebrate their 10th National Mathematics Day on 22nd December - an event which is used to promote Mathematical approach amongst students and to enhance their interest towards Mathematical Sciences. It’s celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan who is acclaimed to be one of the most advanced minds in Mathematics. Ramanujan…

You might be thinking why am I writing about an individual number? Actually, in previous year annual exams, my registration number was 381654729. Which is just an ‘ordinary’ 9-digit long number. I never cared about it- and forgot it after exam results were announced. But today morning, when I opened “Mathematics Today” magazine’s October 2010,…