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Euler's ``De Partitio Numerorum''

Author(s): George E. Andrews
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 561-573.
MSC (2000): Primary 11P81, 11P83, 05A17, 05A19
Posted: June 18, 2007
MathSciNet review: 2338365
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Additional Information:

George E. Andrews
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Email: andrews@math.psu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01180-9
PII: S 0273-0979(07)01180-9
Keywords: Euler, partitions, pentagonal number theorem, signed partitions
Received by editor(s): April 24, 2007
Posted: June 18, 2007
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant DMS 0200097
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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