Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 140, No. 11 (NOVEMBER 2012), pp. 3749-3760 (12 pages) In this paper, we will give a recursion formula for double Hurwitz numbers by the cut-join ...
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. Simple, yes, but ...