How Joe Gillis discovered combinatorial special function theory

DOI10.1007/BF03024903MaRDI QIDQ1908688zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Doron Zeilberger

Publication date 19 June 1996

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9405212

zbMATH Keywords

recurrence relationsspecial functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19)

Abstract: How Enumerative Combinatorics met Special Functions, thanks to Joe Gillis

Review text

Brief biographical notes on J. Gillis and remarks about his rediscovery of connections, via recurrence relations, between combinatorics and special functions.

Cites work

• Derangements and Laguerre polynomials
• Products of Laguerre Polynomials
• Weighted Derangements and the Linearization Coefficients of Orthogonal Sheffer Polynomials

Cited in

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• Counting derangements and Nash equilibria

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