A Probabilistic Proof of the Multinomial Theorem

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.123.1.94MaRDI QIDQ2812198zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors K. K. Kataria

Publication date 16 June 2016

Published in American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01718

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05)

Abstract: In this note, we give an alternate proof of the multinomial theorem using a probabilistic approach. Although the multinomial theorem is basically a combinatorial result, our proof may be simpler for a student familiar with only basic probability concepts.

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