I went through most of the first half of Flajolet and Sedgewick when I was 18 or so and was blown away, then recently went through the second half and was blown away in a completely different way. It’s really wild. Take a look. It’s where I learned the argument in this blog post about the asymptotics of the partition function.
I went through most of the first half of Flajolet and Sedgewick when I was 18 or so and was blown away, then recently went through the second half and was blown away in a completely different way. It’s really wild. Take a look. It’s where I learned the argument in this blog post about the asymptotics of the partition function.