Generalizing Wallis' formula

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.122.04.371MaRDI QIDQ3450390zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Dirk Huylebrouck

Publication date 5 November 2015

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6577

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Mascheroni constantWallis' formulaGlaisher-Kinkelin constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Zeta and (L)-functions: analytic theory (11M99) Integral formulas of real functions of several variables (Stokes, Gauss, Green, etc.) (26B20)

Abstract: The present note generalizes a well-known formula for pi/2 named after the English mathematician John Wallis. The two new formulas for infinite products containing the natural numbers and their roots express them using the Euler-Mascheroni constant and the Glaisher-Kinkelin constant. Like Wallis formula, the generalizations are slowly convergent, but their importance is aesthetic as the fomulas probably please the eye of the mathematical beholder.

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