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In 2002 I published the folllowing curious combinatorial identity: $$(x+m+1)\sum_{i=0}^m(-1)^i\binom{x+y+i}{m-i}\binom{y+2i}i-\sum_{i=0}^m\binom{x+i}{m-i}(-4)^i=(x-m)\binom xm.$$ My original proof is ...

It is not hard to find easy formulas for the derivative of the function $\binom{x}{k}$, for instance it is not too hard to see (for $k$ an integer) that $\frac{d}{dx} \binom{x}{k} = \sum_{i=1}^k \...

Let $C_n=\frac1{n+1}\binom{2n}n$ be the Catalan numbers. Following my earlier post on MO, one fine colleague asked me if there is a $q$-analogue of the identity formed by the so-called Shapiro's ...

Pick integers $b\geq a \geq 0$ and $k\geq j\geq 0$. It is not super-difficult to prove the inequality $$ \binom{kb}{ka}^j \geq \binom{jb}{ja}^k. $$ This is actually quite a nice inequality that was ...

Let $a_n := \frac{1}{2n+1}\binom{3n}{n}$. Then it is known that (one can find references in the OEIS for this.) $$ a_n = \sum_{\substack{i,j,k \geq 0 \\ i+j+k=n-1} } a_i a_j a_k. $$ Is there a natural ...

It is known that the coefficient of $q^t$ in Gaussian binomial coefficient $\binom{m+n}m_q$ equals the number of permutations of the multiset $\{0^m, 1^n\}$ with $t$ inversions. Is there a closed ...