Abstract

George Andrews (Penn State), What can we still learn from Euler about partitions?


  • Abstract:
  • Euler devotes chapter 16 of his book, Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite Vol. 1 (John Blanton, translator), to the partitions of numbers. I wrote an article for the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society on this chapter. After surveying Euler's achievements, I pointed to a number of new partitions theorems inspired by Euler's ideas. In this talk I will elaborate presenting further new results that have arisen from my first observations.