Bernoulli's Identity without Calculus

DOI10.2307/2691053MaRDI QIDQ4359125zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenneth S. Williams

Publication date 14 December 1997

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2691053

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68)

Review text

The author gives an elegant and elementary proof of Bernoulli's famous identity \[ \sum_{r=1}^{n-1} r^k=\frac1{k+1}\sum_{j=0}^k{k+1\choose j}B_jn^{k+1-j}, \] for \(n,k=1,2,\dots\) using only the recurrence relation for the Bernoulli numbers \[ B_m=-\frac1{m+1}\sum_{j=0}^{m-1}{m+1\choose j}B_j,\quad m=1,2,\dots,\quad B_0=1. \]

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