%0 Journal Article %T An Alternative Proof of a Closed Formula for Central Factorial Numbers of the Second Kind %A Bai-Ni Guo %A Feng Qi %A Guo-Sheng Wu %J Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory %D 2019 %R 10.12691/tjant-7-2-5 %X In the short note, by virtue of several formulas and identities for special values of the Bell polynomials of the second kind, the authors provide an alternative proof of a closed formula for central factorial numbers of the second kind. Moreover, the authors pose two open problems on closed form of a special Bell polynomials of the second kind and on closed form of a finite sum involving falling factorials %U http://www.sciepub.com/TJANT/abstract/11106