A few remarks on \(\zeta (3)\) (Q1360822): Difference between revisions

This is an exciting paper packed with wonderful formulas, valuable analysis, and useful explanations, which will surely interest the many `fans' of Apéry's astonishing proof in 1978 of the irrationality of \(\zeta(3)\) (see the reviewer's `A proof that Euler missed \dots ' [\textit{A. J. van der Poorten}, Math. Intell. 1, 195-203 (1979; Zbl 0409.10028)]. Specifically, the author analyses and applies ideas of \textit{L. A. Gutnik} [Acta Arith. 42, 255-264 (1983; Zbl 0521.10028)] to produce a new view on Apéry's proof. These notions give rise to the author's extensive exploration of recurrence relations satisfied by a class of Meyer \(G\)-functions and lead to new continued fraction representations of \(\zeta(3)\). This paper gives one a fine response to provide to those writing to ask ``what has happened to \(\zeta(3)\) since 1979?''.