A Remark on Stirling's Formula

1955/01/01 by Herbert Robbins · 535 citations
Mathematics · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Calculus (dental) #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #Mathematical economics #Mathematics #Medicine #Physics #Pure mathematics #Stirling engine #Stirling number #Stirling numbers of the first kind #Stirling numbers of the second kind #Thermodynamics

paper · doi:10.2307/2308012

published in American Mathematical Monthly 62(1), 26 (Taylor & Francis)

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