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Famous Families of Numbers

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Many families of numbers arise again and again in many different mathematical problems: Often they have been named after the mathematicians who investigated them. In this chapter we’ll meet Bell and Stirling, Ramanujan, Catalan, Bernoulli and Euler, Fibonacci and Lucas.

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Conway, J.H., Guy, R.K. (1996). Famous Families of Numbers. In: The Book of Numbers. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4072-3_4

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