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We give an elementary proof of Kelley's theorem based on a minimax argument. Some applications to related problems are also developed.

Translated from the Latin original "Evolutio producti infiniti $(1-x)(1-xx)(1-x^3)(1x^4)(1-x^5)(1-x^6)$ etc. in seriem simplicem" (1775). E541 in the Enestroem index. In this paper Euler is revisiting his proof of the pentagonal number…

Recently Alan D. Sokal gave a very short and completely elementary proof of the uniform boundedness principle. The aim of this note is to point out that by using a similiar technique one can give a considerably short and simple proof of a…

The equation studied is u"+((n-1)/r)u'+epsilon u u'+ku'^{2}=0, with boundary conditions u(1)=0, u(infinity)=1. This model equation has been studied by many authors since it was introduced in the 1950s by P. A. Lagerstrom. We use an…

A short and elementary proof is given of a celebrated eigenvalue-perturbation result due to Alfred Brauer.

In 1737 Leonard Euler gave what we often now think of as a new proof, based on infinite series, of Euclid's theorem that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Our short paper uses a simple modification of Euler's argument to obtain new…

In his 1985 survey of notions of exchangeability, Aldous introduced a form of exchangeability corresponding to the symmetries of the infinite discrete cube, and asked whether these exchangeable probability measures enjoy a representation…

We use Taylor's formula with Lagrange remainder to make a modern adaptation of Poisson's proof of a version of the fundamental theorem of calculus in the case when the integral is defined by Euler sums, that is Riemann sums with left (or…

There is a lack of simple and scalable algorithms for uncertainty quantification. Bayesian methods quantify uncertainty through posterior and predictive distributions, but it is difficult to rapidly estimate summaries of these…

L. Weinstein's brilliant short proof of de Branges's Theorem is made even shorter by using computer algebra.

Recently, Bringmann, Ono, and Rhoades employed harmonic weak Maass forms to prove results on Eulerian series as modular forms. By changing the setting to Appell--Lerch sums, we shorten the proof of one of their main theorems. In addition we…

We define a general notion of entropy in elementary, algebraic terms. Based on that, weak forms of a scalar product and a distance measure are derived. We give basic properties of these quantities, generalize the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality,…

I give a simpler proof of the generalisation of Engel's Theorem to Leibniz algebras.

This paper re-examines the first normalized incomplete moment, a well-established measure of inequality with wide applications in economic and social sciences. Despite the popularity of the measure itself, existing statistical inference…

Selberg sums are the analogues over finite fields of certain integrals studied by Selberg in in 1940s. The original versions of these sums were introduced by R.J.Evans in 1981 and, following an elegant idea of G.W.Anderson in 1991 they were…

We give an elementary proof of the Paley-Wiener theorem for smooth functions for the Dunkl transforms on the real line, establish a similar theorem for L^2-functions and prove identities in the spirit of Bang for L^p-functions. The proofs…

In 1853 Sylvester stated and proved an elegant formula that expresses the polynomial subresultants in terms of the roots of the input polynomials. Sylvester's formula was also recently proved by Lascoux and Pragacz by using multi-Schur…

We survey the applications of an elementary identity used by Euler in one of his proofs of the Pentagonal Number Theorem. Using a suitably reformulated version of this identity that we call Euler's Telescoping Lemma, we give alternate…

We generalize aspects of Fourier Analysis from intervals on $\mathbb{R}$ to bounded and measurable subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In doing so, we obtain a few interesting results. The first is a new proof of the famous Integral Cauchy-Schwarz…

We give a new proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. It is entirely elementary, focused on using long division to its fullest extent. Further, the method quickly recovers a more general version of the theorem recently obtained by…