Letter to the editor: A series from the Karaṇapaddhati

DOI10.1007/BF03024362MaRDI QIDQ1908689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Friedrich L. Bauer

Publication date 5 March 1996

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024362

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Indian mathematics (01A32) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences of functions (40A30)

Review text

The letter concerns the series \({\pi \over 4} = {3 \over 4} + \sum^\infty_{k = 1} {(- 1)^{k + 1} \over 2k (2k + 1) (2k + 2)}\) in the Indian script Karaṇapaddhati by Nîlakaṇṭha.

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