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.

For centuries, some of the greatest names in math have tried to make sense of partition numbers, the basis for adding and counting. Many mathematicians added major pieces to the puzzle, but all of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...