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It not infrequently happens that the same mathematical problem appears in different guises in a variety of disciplines and is repeatedly treated by different writers unaware of each other’s existence. Such is the case with a classical problem of combinatorial analysis, the problème des ménages, which arose more than a century ago in a physical context and was solved anew recently in an actuarial journal.
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Dutka, J. (2001). On the Problème des Ménages . In: Mathematical Conversations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0195-0_25
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