The study of integer partitions has a long and storied history, notably beginning with the pioneering work of Hardy and Ramanujan, and continues to be enriched by modern asymptotic techniques. Recent ...

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 ...