Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B92c (2025), 12 pp.

Shane Chern

A Probabilistic Proof of Euler's Pentagonal Number Theorem

Abstract. We present a probabilistic proof of Euler's pentagonal number theorem based on a shuffling model.


Received: January 8, 2025. Revised: May 22, 2025; August 8, 2025. Accepted: August 22, 2025.

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