Reference request: Gessel interview's generating function identities
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In this interview, Ira Gessel mentions the following results: Result 1: Let $B_n$ denote the $n^{\text{th}}$ Bernoulli number.
In this interview, Ira Gessel mentions the following results: Result 1: Let $B_n$ denote the $n^{\text{th}}$ Bernoulli number.
A natural question in combinatorics is, why are certain families of generating functions combinatorially useful, like $\Sigma_n…