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On some sum–to–product identities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Shaun Cooper  and
Michael Hirschhorn
Shaun Cooper
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Massey University, Private Bag 102 904, North Shore Mail Centre, Auckland, New Zealand, e-mail: s.cooper@massey.ac.nz
Michael Hirschhorn
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, UNSW, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia, e-mail: m.hirschhorn@unsw.edu.au
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Abstract

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To George Szekeres on his ninetieth birthday

We give new proofs of some sum–to–product identities due to Blecksmith, Brillhart and Gerst, as well as some other such identities found recently by us.

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 353 - 365
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2001

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