International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 22 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 431-435
doi:10.1155/S0161171299224313
A short proof of an identity of Sylvester
Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, OH, USA
Received 16 October 1996
Copyright © 1999 Gaurav Bhatngar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We present two short proofs of an identity found by Sylvester and rediscovered by Louck. The first proof is an elementary version of Knuth's proof
and is analogous to Macdonald's proof of a related identity of Milne. The second is Sylvester's own proof of his identity.