The early history of the factorial function

DOI10.1007/BF00389433MaRDI QIDQ1205970zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Jacques Dutka

Publication date 1 April 1993

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00389433

zbMATH Keywords

D. BernoulliDe MoivreEulerfunctorial functionGaussLegendrerepresentation of \(n'\)Stirling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

Review text

The author looks at the early history of the factorial function and analyses the work of De Moivre, Stirling, D. Bernoulli, Euler, Legendre and finally Gauss to this topic. Various formulas and approximations of the factorial function are described in detail.

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• Der Mathematiker Abraham de Moivre (1667--1754)
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