The God Equation is a new and short book by the theoretical physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku. It's not his best book, but it does raise an interesting question: Why is God in its title?

What’s God got to do with it? Given that the majority of physicists are agnostics at best, I have always found it puzzling that my community is so obsessed with God’s mind, whether or not God plays ...

Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematical prodigy born in 1887, saw mathematics as a path to God. He attributed his intuitive discoveries, particularly in infinite series, to divine inspiration received in ...