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Stirling Numbers, Central Factorial Numbers, and Representations of the Riemann Zeta Function

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Dedicated to Walter Benz on the occasion of his 60th birthday,in friendship

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Butzer, P.L., Markett, C. & Schmidt, M. Stirling Numbers, Central Factorial Numbers, and Representations of the Riemann Zeta Function. Results. Math. 19, 257–274 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03323285

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