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Euler’s “De Partitio Numerorum”
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  • George E. Andrews
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
  • MR Author ID: 26060
  • Email: andrews@math.psu.edu
  • Received by editor(s): April 24, 2007
  • Published electronically: June 18, 2007
  • Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant DMS 0200097
  • © Copyright 2007 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 561-573
  • MSC (2000): Primary 11P81, 11P83, 05A17, 05A19
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01180-9
  • MathSciNet review: 2338365