A probabilistic approach to some binomial identities

Victor H. Moll (1) , Christophe Vignat (2)

1 Department of Mathematics [Tulane, New Orleans]
2 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes

Classical binomial identities are established by giving probabilistic interpretations to the summands. The examples include Vandermonde identity and some generalizations.

Domains: Mathematics [math]; Probability [math.PR]

Victor H. Moll, Christophe Vignat. A probabilistic approach to some binomial identities. Elemente der Mathematik, 2015, 70 (2), pp.55. ⟨10.4171/em/275⟩. ⟨hal-01322850⟩