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The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous.

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A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

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Herbert Wilf

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Born: June 13, 1931
Died: January 7, 2012 (aged 80)
Bio: Herbert Saul Wilf was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers.
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  1. Generatingfunctionology (1990)
  2. Algorithms and complexity (1986)

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