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A formula of S. Ramanujan (English)
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1987
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While editing the notebooks of Ramanujan, Berndt and Joshi discovered an incorrect formula. The present author, in an attempt to obtain a correct version, was led to consider 12 classes of infinite series of the form \(\sum^{\infty}_{r=1}\sum^{r}_{k=1}\) or \(\sum^{\infty}_{r=1}\sum^{2r-1}_{k=1}\) where typical summands are \(r^{-s} k^{-1},\quad r^{-s} (k+r)^{-1},\) and \(r^{-s} (-1)^{k- 1} k^{-1}.\) The author provides a very useful review of the literature on these and similar series and gives elementary proofs of a variety of new and old results. He evaluates several of the series explicitly in terms of \(\zeta\) (2), \(\zeta\) (3) and Catalan's constant and derives a number of expressions for Ramanujan's series.
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evaluation of infinite series
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Riemann zeta-function
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Catalan constant
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