List of partition topics

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This is a list of partition topics, in the mathematical sense.

For the political sense of the word partition see for example: history of Cyprus, history of Ireland, partition of India, partitions of Poland, 1947 UN Partition Plan (Palestine). The partition disambiguation page lists meanings in other fields as well.

In mathematics, a partition may be

• a partition of a set or an ordered partition of a set, or
• a partition of a graph, or
• a partition of an integer, or
• a partition of an interval, or
• a partition of unity, or
• a partition of a matrix; see block matrix, or
• a partition of the sum of squares in statistics problems, especially in the analysis of variance.

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• Bell number
  • Dobinski's formula
• Chinese restaurant process
• Cumulant
• Data clustering
• Equivalence relation
• Ewens's sampling formula
• Exponential formula
• Faà di Bruno's formula
• Ferrers graph
• Glaisher's theorem
• Integer partition
• Kernel of a function
• Landau's function
• Law of total cumulance
• Noncrossing partition
• Ordered partition of a set
• Partition function (number theory)
• Partition function (quantum field theory)
• Partition function (statistical mechanics)
  • Derivation of the partition function
• Partition of an interval
• Partition of a number
• Partition of a set
  • Ordered partition
• Partition of unity
• Pentagonal number theorem
• Plane partition
• Stirling number
  • Stirling transform
• Stratification (mathematics)
• Tverberg partition
• Twelvefold way
• Young tableau