Supportive attitudes can bring to a blossoming science, while neglect can
quickly make science absent from everyday life and provide a very primitive
view of the world. We compare one important Greek achievement, the computation
of the earth meridian by Eratosthenes, to its later interpretation by the Roman
historian of science Pliny.
We obtain a series transformation formula involving the classical Hermite
polynomials. We then provide a number of applications using appropriate
binomial transformations. Several of the new series involve Hermite polynomials
and Harmonic numbers. We also obtain a series involving both Hermite and
Laguerre polynomials, and a series with Hermite polynomials and Stirling
numbers of the second kind.
Five series are evaluated in terms of zeta values. Three of the series
involve harmonic numbers and one involves Stirling numbers of the first kind.
The evaluation of these series is reduced to the evaluation of certain
integrals, including the moments of the polylogarithm.
Several combinatorial identities are presented, involving Stirling functions
of the second kind with a complex variable. The identities involve also
Stirling numbers of the first kind, binomial coefficients and harmonic numbers.
This article is a survey of the exponential polynomials (also called
single-variable Bell polynomials) from the point of view of Analysis. Some new
properties are included and several Analysis-related applications are
mentioned.
This article is a survey of the exponential polynomials (also called
single-variable Bell polynomials) from the point of view of Analysis. Some new
properties are included and several Analysis-related applications are
mentioned.