Some experiments with complete and elementary symmetric functions (Q901307)

Using computer calculations the author notes some nice determinantal formulas for the classical Stirling numbers of the first and second kind, like \[ \det \left(\begin{bmatrix} i+k\cr j\end{bmatrix}\right)_{1\leq i,j\leq n}=k!^n,\qquad \det \left(\left\{\begin{matrix} i+k\cr j\end{matrix}\right\}\right)_{1\leq i,j\leq n}=n!^k, \] or \[ \det\left(\begin{bmatrix} i+k\cr j+k-1\end{bmatrix}\right)_{1\leq i,j\leq n}=\left\{\begin{matrix} n+k\cr k\end{matrix}\right\},\qquad \det \left(\left\{\begin{matrix} i+k\cr j+k-1\end{matrix}\right\}\right)_{1\leq i,j\leq n}=\begin{bmatrix} n+k\cr k\end{bmatrix}. \] He proves that these are particular cases of general formulas for complete and elementary symmetric functions.