Just a year before his death in 1920 at the age of 32, mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came upon a remarkable pattern in a special list of whole numbers. The list represented counts of how many ways ...

Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s stymied mathematicians for centuries.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In playwright Ira Hauptman's work, "Partition," British mathematician Harold Hardy ...

Partitioning is a useful way of breaking numbers up into smaller parts, making them easier to work with. It is helpful for when you want to add or subtract larger numbers. There are many different ...

In the realm of mathematics, it’s hard to imagine anything more basic than the counting numbers: 1, 2, 3, and so on. Yet this set of mathematical objects abounds with beautiful and unexpected patterns ...

As India prepares to mark 70 years of independence from the British, and Pakistan the anniversary of its birth, we look at some of the numbers behind this defining event known as Partition. The number ...