History of Catalan numbers by Igor Pak (updated 2014)

By Igor Pak.

Online text: arxiv.org/pdf/1408.5711

Standalone historical preprint, arXiv:1408.5711. Version 1 was submitted on 25 August 2014; the inspected version 2 is dated 27 August 2014. Its cover says the account will appear as an appendix in a forthcoming book by Richard P. Stanley; the authorship here applies to this preprint, not to the whole book.

Cited passages: §§2–3 and §5, printed pp. 2–4: Euler correspondence, Segner recurrence and Catalan's bracketed products.