Colorful Proofs of the Generating Formulas for Signed and Unsigned Stirling Numbers of the First Kind
Abstract
We describe proofs of the standard generating formulas for unsigned and signed Stirling numbers of the first kind that follow from a natural combinatorial interpretation based on cycle-colored permutations.
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