nLab Richard Stanley

Richard P. Stanley is a mathematician specializing in combinatorics.

• personal page, publications

• Wikipedia entry

Selected writings

On plane partitions, symmetric functions, Schur functions:

• Richard Stanley, Theory and application of plane partitions 1, Studies in Applied Math. 50 2 (1971), 167-188 (pdf, StanleyPlanePartitions1.pdf)

and introducing the hook-content formula:

• Richard Stanley, Theory and application of plane partitions 2, Studies in Applied Math. 50 3 (1971), 259-279 (pdf, pdf)

On enumerative combinatorics:

• Richard Stanley, Enumerative combinatorics – Volume 1, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Mathematics Series book series 1986, 1997 (doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-9763-6) reprinted in: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Cambridge University Press 2011 (ISBN:9781107602625, pdf)

specifically on symmetric functions:

• Richard Stanley, Enumerative combinatorics 2, Cambridge University Press (1999, 2010) (doi:10.1017/CBO9780511609589, webpage)

Related $n$Lab entries

• hook content formula

• Catalan number

• incidence algebra

• order polynomial

• zeta polynomial

• Gian-Carlo Rota

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