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 ...

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 ...

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