A Note on the Parity of P(n)

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https://doi.org/10.18311/jims/1946/17116

Abstract

In 1920, Mac Mahon* gave a method for determining the parity of p(n)-the number of unrestricted partitions of n. He made use of Jacobi's Elliptic products. His results are here obtained in a simpler and more direct way.