Central and local limit theorems applied to asymptotic enumeration

Limit Distributions for Sums of Independent Random Variables.

Wassily Hoeffding, A. N. Kolmogorov, Kai Lai Chung et al. · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1955 · 2.2K citations

Integrable Probability, Probability Theory, Limit Distributions +1

Stirling Behavior is Asymptotically Normal

L. H. Harper · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1967 · 294 citations · Full text

Stirling Numbers, Analytic Combinatorics, Probability Theory +5

Eulerian Numbers and Polynomials

L. Carlitz · Mathematics Magazine · 1959 · 224 citations

Geometry Of Number, Computational Number Theory, Eulerian Numbers +1

Saddle-point Methods for the Multinomial Distribution

I. J. Good · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1957 · 131 citations · Full text

Mathematical Programming, Large Deviations, Dirichlet Form +15

Stirling numbers of the second kind

Leo Moser, Max Wyman · Duke Mathematical Journal · 1958 · 88 citations

Analytic Combinatorics, Enumerative Combinatorics, Symbolic Method (Combinatorics) +1