Svante Janson's Partial Non-Anonymous Report on the article "The Number of Inversions and the Major Index of Permutations are Asymptotically Joint-Independently Normal" by A. Baxter and D. Zeilberger

I have no objections to the "Crash course". Note, however, that you use alpha and not a for the variables in the final formula; this is not incorrect, but it still may be a typo.

Regarding the brief history, I have, unfortunately, no recollection of my involvement, but emails show that it is correct. (Another example of your thesis that computers are superior to humans, at least for certain tasks.)

Added Jan. 3, 2011: DZ just found and scanned, Don Knuth's snail-mail letter that raised the question.

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