Hi people


In a recent presentation by Sedgewick, he recounts in 1977 Flajolet noticed that they had a formula in common, both in different domains (see slide 4 in <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/AofA2AC.pdf> )


I saw the same thing in an article on tantalizing links between matrix eigenvalues distributions, nuclear physics and Riemann's zeta zeros <http://web.williams.edu/go/math/sjmiller/public_html/RH/Hayes_spectrum_riemannium.pdf> 


My question is: Say I have a formula/equation - how would I go about searching for an occurrence of the formula in other domains? Can I make Wolfram Alpha do that?


Thanks for any pointers


Daniel Bilar



Formula in common: How to search for same/similar equations in other knowledge domains?
If you can turn your formula into an integer sequence, put it into [OEIS](http://oeis.org/). This includes:


Plug in integer values for your parameters and enter the outputs.


If your construction produces a sequence of vector spaces, input their dimensions.


If you have a polynomial with integer coefficients, input its coefficients.


If you have a triangular array of integers, enter it by diagonals.


If you have a probability distribution, and its moments are integers, enter those.


