Young diagram

English

Etymology

Introduced by Alfred Young, a Cambridge mathematician.

Noun

Young diagram (plural Young diagrams)

1. (mathematics) 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.

Related terms

• Young tableau

See also

• Ferrers diagram