Partition theory, a central branch of combinatorial number theory, concerns itself with the enumeration and properties of the ways in which integers may be decomposed into sums of positive integers ...

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 ...

Prime numbers are essential for technologies like RSA encryption, which rely on the difficulty of guessing these numerals. A new paper shows that another area of mathematics called integer partition ...