Timeline for Why were plane partitions invented?
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| May 16, 2020 at 16:28 | answer | added | Sam Hopkins | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 12:05 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | rather off topic... Many years ago, in a lecture I heard by someone recently arrived from Russia, a major character was someone pronounced "Mak Ma Gon". | |
| Feb 28, 2011 at 21:37 | comment | added | Ira Gessel | MacMahon used the term "major index" (and "minor index") to refer to something different from what the term is now usually used for (MacMahon's "greater index"). MacMahon also wrote about "superior" and "inferior" indices, though I don't remember what they were. | |
| Feb 27, 2011 at 2:11 | comment | added | Richard Stanley | Actually, MacMahon called the major index the "greater index." Dominique Foata suggested the name "major index" in honor of MacMahon. | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 23:23 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | Well, there's a statistic of permutations called the "major index". This is so-called not because it is paired with some "minor index" but because MacMahon came up with it. If you don't call him "Major MacMahon" this stops making sense. At least this is how I've always heard the story -- but in fact MacMahon's book (Google Books: bit.ly/hh7Y1e) uses the terms "major index" and "minor index". No explanation for Sister Celine, though. | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 20:11 | answer | added | Greg Kuperberg | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 20:07 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | Other examples are Reverend Thomas Kirkman and, sometimes Reverence Young of tableaux fame. | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 19:22 | comment | added | Kevin O'Bryant | We'd never refer to Felix Klein as "Mr Klein", or even as "Dr Klein", so why does Percy MacMahon always get his title? "Sister Celine" is another example, as is "Lord Rayleigh". | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 19:19 | history | edited | Kevin O'Bryant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 25, 2011 at 18:44 | vote | accept | Daniel Parry | ||
| Feb 25, 2011 at 17:55 | answer | added | Richard Stanley | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 8:48 | answer | added | Gjergji Zaimi | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 4:52 | comment | added | JBL | Is there any reason to suspect it wasn't? (It seems like the way to answer this question is to go read whatever MacMahon wrote about them, doesn't it?) | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 3:44 | comment | added | Daniel Parry | Was it really that simple? | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 3:43 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | I guess the observation that they are the obvious step after usual partitions is not a satisfactory answer? | |
| Feb 25, 2011 at 3:40 | history | asked | Daniel Parry | CC BY-SA 2.5 |