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 ...

Robert Schneider, in his book-and-curio-stacked Fisher Hall office, found his way to Tech in 2022 in part thanks to a spring break ice storm that trapped him and wife Marci in the Keweenaw after his ...