  In this article we study the "norm" of an integer partition, which we define
to be the product of the parts. This partition-theoretic statistic has appeared
here and there in the literature of the last century or so, and is at the heart
of current research by both authors. We survey known results and give new
results related to this all-but-overlooked object, which, it turns out, plays a
comparable role in partition theory to the size, length, and other standard
partition statistics.
