Partitions are a major part of the Ramanujan story (as shown in the new film about his life) - but what are they? More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Dr James Grime tackles...
========== He's known as one of the mathematicians with perhaps the most natural talent for mathsIt's a man called Ramanujan. He was an Indian mathematician. He started with no formal trainingin mathematics. But just by working alone, isolated, he was able to come up with all these mathematical facts,these theorems, all by himself. Some were rediscoveries of things that were already knownSome were new! And he sent these to Cambridge mathematicians and they recognized his talentAnd he was invited to come to Cambridge and show off what he could doWhen we're filming this - a film has just come out all about Ramanujanthis film just concentrated on one achievement. And it was something to do with partitions.So partitions is about the number of ways that we can...
