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How to partition a finite set? This question is almost as fundamental as how to select a subset of elements, or how to permute the elements in the set. However, the answer to the question turns out to be rather more delicate, which is why we have deferred the question until now.
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.”
–David Hilbert
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Petersen, T.K. (2019). Exponential generating functions and Bell numbers. In: Inquiry-Based Enumerative Combinatorics. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18308-0_7
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