Leonhard Euler

Thinkers1707 to 1783Mathematician

Works

  • Introductio in analysin infinitorum, 1748

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Known for

Chapter 16 of the Introductio treats the partition of numbers: Euler counted the ways a number can be written as a sum by expanding a product of factors as a power series, so that the coefficients do the counting. This is the method of generating functions that combinatorics still uses.

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