Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
§ 1. Corresponding to any partition
which we denote by [a1, . …, ak] or briefly by [a], of the integer n, we can construct a shape which has a1 spaces in the first row, a2 in the second row, . …, ak in the kth and last row. Thus the shape corresponding to the partition [5, 3, 3, 2] of 13 has the form:
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