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Euler Identity

Weisstein, Eric W.


For ,

(1)

Both of these have closed form representation

(2)

where is a q-Pochhammer symbol.

Expanding and taking a series expansion about zero for either side gives

(3)

giving 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 27, ... (OEIS A000009), i.e., the number of partitions of into distinct parts .


See also

Euler Formula, Jacobi Triple Product, Partition Function Q, q-Series

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References

Bailey, W. N. Generalised Hypergeometric Series. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 72, 1935.Franklin, F. "Sur le developpement du produit infini ." Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 92, 448-450, 1881.Hardy, G. H. §6.2 in Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work, 3rd ed. New York: Chelsea, pp. 83-85, 1999.Hardy, G. H. and Wright, E. M. §19.11 in An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, 5th ed. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1979.MacMahon, P. A. Combinatory Analysis, Vol. 2. New York: Chelsea, pp. 21-23, 1960.Nagell, T. Introduction to Number Theory. New York: Wiley, p. 55, 1951.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequence A000009/M0281 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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