Cesaro's integral formula for the Bell numbers (corrected)

2007/08/24 by Callan, David · 1 citation
#05A18 #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.3301

Abstract

M. E. Cesaro (1885) gave a quite remarkable expression for the Bell number --the number of partitions of an n-element set -- as a definite integral. This note is an exposition, correcting a typographical error in the original.

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