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The Classical Umbral Calculus

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Submitted: 16 March 1993
Accepted: 20 April 1993
Published online: 01 August 2006

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ISSN (print): 0036-1410
ISSN (online): 1095-7154
CODEN: sjmaah

A rigorous presentation of the umbral calculus, as formerly applied heuristically by Blissard, Bell, Riordan, and others is given. As an application, the basic identities for Bernoulli numbers, as well as their generalizations first developed by Nörlund are derived.

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