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Young diagram

Young diagram 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.

Noun

Young diagram (plural Young diagrams)

  1. 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.

Forms of Young diagram

pluralYoung diagrams

Origin of Young diagram

Introduced by Alfred Young, a Cambridge mathematician.

Questions about Young diagram

What does Young diagram mean?
Young diagram means 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.
What part of speech is Young diagram?
Young diagram is a noun.
What is the plural of Young diagram?
The plural of Young diagram is Young diagrams.

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