Timeline for What are some early examples of creation of lists / catalogues of (particularly) combinatorial objects?
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| Nov 23, 2010 at 22:52 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | According to Hardy and Wright, 6th ed., p. 391, "MacMahon's table is printed in Proc London Math Soc (2) 17 (1918) 114-5, and has subsequently been extended to 600 (Gupta, ibid, 39 (1935) 142-9, and 42 (1937) 546-9), and to 1000 (Gupta, Gwyther, and Miller, Roy Soc Math Tables 4 (Cambridge 1958))." Whether that last work made use of an electronic computer, I do not know. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 16:55 | comment | added | Igor Pak | I doubt MacMahon ever published this table. In his "Ramanujan: twelve lectures", Hardy writes: "Macmahon was a practiced and enthusiastic computer, and made us a table of $p(n)$ up to $n=200$".bit.ly/eyixDR Somehow $p(200)=3,972,999,029,388$ became so popular, it became part of the folklore and was even printed in the NYTimes.nyti.ms/eFRlQt | |
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