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noun
A finite collection of boxes, or cells, arranged in left-justified rows, with the row lengths in non-increasing order. Listing the number of boxes in each row gives a partition λ of a non-negative integer n, the total number of boxes of the diagram.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
Introduced by Alfred Young, a Cambridge mathematician.
