Partition theory studies the ways in which a positive integer can be expressed as a sum of positive integers, without regard to order. Originating in the work of Euler, it has evolved through the ...

In playwright Ira Hauptman's work, "Partition," British mathematician Harold Hardy explains "partition theory" as the number of ways one may express a whole number through the addition of other whole ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Professor Brandt Kronholm of St. Mary’s College of Maryland explains Partition Theory, and uses some very large numbers in doing so. Kronholm is a visiting assistant ...

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 ...