From Wallis and Forsyth to Ramanujan

DOI10.1007/S11139-017-9940-3MaRDI QIDQ1633152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Levrie, Amrik Singh Nimbran

Publication date 19 December 2018

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1551090151162165141

zbMATH Keywords

Ramanujan's seriesseries for \(1/\pi \)Wallis's product formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

Recommendations

• From Wallis to Ramanujan, in the company of R. W. Gosper.
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• Ramanujan's series for \(1/\pi \): a survey
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Cites work

• A summation formula and Ramanujan type series
• Dougall's \(_5F_4\) sum and the WZ algorithm
• Dougall's bilateral \(_{2}H_{2}\)-series and Ramanujan-like \(\pi\)-formulae
• Gauss summation and Ramanujan-type series for \(1/\pi\)
• On Wallis-type products and Pólya's urn schemes
• Ramanujan's series for \(1/\pi \): a survey
• Using Fourier-Legendre expansions to derive series for \(\frac{1}{\pi}\) and \(\frac{1}{\pi^{2}}\)

Cited in

(7)

• Wallis-Ramanujan-Schur-Feynman
• On two-term hypergeometric recursions with free lower parameters
• Further WZ-based methods for proving and generalizing Ramanujan's series
• Series acceleration formulas obtained from experimentally discovered hypergeometric recursions
• Applications of Zeilberger’s Algorithm to Ramanujan-Inspired Series Involving Harmonic-Type Numbers
• The appearance of H. F. Baker and E. W. Hobson in ``The man who knew infinity
• From Wallis to Ramanujan, in the company of R. W. Gosper.

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