Euler's constant: Euler's work and modern developments

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01423-XMaRDI QIDQ2849016zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeffrey C. Lagarias

Publication date 16 September 2013

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1856

zbMATH Keywords

random matrix theoryzeta functionEulerEuler-Mascheroni constantperiodsRiemann hypothesisprime numbersGamma functionrandom permutationsarithmetic functionsdiophantine approximationL-series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) History of number theory (11-03) Transcendence (general theory) (11J81) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory (11-02) Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72)

Abstract: This paper has two parts. The first part surveys Euler's work on the constant gamma=0.57721... bearing his name, together with some of his related work on the gamma function, values of the zeta function and divergent series. The second part describes various mathematical developments involving Euler's constant, as well as another constant, the Euler-Gompertz constant. These developments include connections with arithmetic functions and the Riemann hypothesis, and with sieve methods, random permutations and random matrix products. It includes recent results on Diophantine approximation and transcendence related to Euler's constant.

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