In Praise of an Elementary Identity of Euler

After many years, a new math paper. Its mostly a survey of my favorite identities, but has some new identities too. The new results have been checked (as typeset in the paper) using Maxima.  I have tried to write the first few sections so that  anyone can read and appreciate it.
I would appreciate any comments, typos, etc.

Update (March 16, 2011):
Presentation from: Georgia Southern q-Series conference, March 15. Here is a link.

Update (June 11, 2011): The paper is published by the Electronic J. of Combinatorics, Vol 18 (2), P13 44 pp. Download.


Keywords:
Telescoping, Fibonacci Numbers,  Pell Numbers, Derangements, Hypergeometric Series, Fibonacci Polynomials,  q-Fibonacci Numbers,  q-Pell numbers, Basic Hypergeometric Series, q-series, Binomial Theorem, q-Binomial Theorem, Chu--Vandermonde sum, q-Chu--Vandermonde sum, Pfaff--Saalschutz sum, q-Pfaff--Saalschutz sum, q-Dougall summation, very-well-poised 6 phi 5 sum, Generalized Hypergeometric Series, WZ Method

My Mathematical Forefathers

From time to time, I look at the Mathematics Genealogy Project, and search for my own mathematical tree. I was happy to note that I am a direct descendant of Gauss and of Leibnitz. What I noticed today, was that I am a mathematical cousin of Saroj Malik, my teacher in Hindu College, who taught me abstract algebra and elementary number theory. We branch out at Gauss.

Here is the complete list of my mathematical forefathers.

  • Friedrich Leibnitz
  • Jakob Thomasius
  • Otto Mencke
  • Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
  • Christian August Hausen
  • Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
  • Johann Friedrich Pfaff
  • Carl Friedrich Gauß
  • Christoph Gudermann
  • Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstraß
  • Leo Königsberger
  • Georg Alexander Pick
  • Charles Loewner
  • Adriano Mario Garsia
  • Stephen Carl Milne
  • Gaurav Bhatnagar