Publication Details

Title: A Geometric Proof of a Formula for the Number of Young Tableaux of a Given Shape
Author: M. Luby
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: February 1996
PDF: ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/techreports/1996/tr-96-008.pdf

Overview:
This paper contains a short proof of a formula by Frame, Robinson, and Thrall [1] which counts the number of Young tableaux of a given shape. The proof is based on a simple but novel geometric way of expressing the area of a Ferrers diagram.

Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-96-008

Bibliographic Reference:
M. Luby. A Geometric Proof of a Formula for the Number of Young Tableaux of a Given Shape. ICSI Technical Report TR-96-008, February 1996