Cracking a century-old enigma.

• Autores: Davide Castelvecchi
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 304, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 24-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses a statement posited by Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan regarding the concept of partitions, which are subdivisions of a whole number into smaller ones, that number theorists have finally managed to make sense of. Topics include an overview of Ramanujan's posit, how partitions are expressed, and the discovery by U.S. mathematicians at Emory University found a solution to Ramanujan for patterns linking higher primes in partitions.