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.

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 ...

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 ...