Mathematics
- Partition (number theory), a way to write a number as a sum of other numbers
- Multiplicative partition, a way to write a number as a product of other numbers
- Partition of an interval
- Partition of a set
- Partition of unity, a certain kind of set of functions on a topological space
- Partition problem, an NP-complete problem in computer science
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“In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale;
Resolve, by sines and tangents straight,
If bread and butter wanted weight;
And wisely tell what hour o’ th’ day
The clock doth strike, by algebra.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)