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In the Footsteps of Euler and Macmahon: Combinatorics, the Mathematics That Counts (2014)

Wilson, Robin J. (Author)

British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 29, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 196-209

DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2014.916115

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This article is based on my presidential address, given at the BSHM Christmas meeting on 7 December 2013. It features the history of combinatorics, a much neglected area, with particular reference to the work of two mathematicians who have always interested me---Leonhard Euler and Major Percy MacMahon---and with further contributions by Arthur Cayley (on trees) and G H Hardy and S Ramanujan (on partitions).

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