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Cesaro's integral formula for the Bell numbers (corrected)

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Abstract

M. E. Cesaro (1885) gave a quite remarkable expression for the Bell number --the number of partitions of an n-element set -- as a definite integral. This note is an exposition, correcting a typographical error in the original.

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@article{arxiv.0708.3301,
  title  = {Cesaro's integral formula for the Bell numbers (corrected)},
  author = {David Callan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3301},
  year   = {2007}
}

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