The year 2018 marks 100 years since the publication of one of the most startling results in the history of mathematics: Hardy and Ramanujan’s asymptotic formula for the partition function. To ...

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Ramanujan made one of the first real breakthroughs. He and Hardy together devised a method to quickly approximate partition numbers.