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

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01423-XzbMATH Open1282.11002arXiv1303.1856OpenAlexW2012219055WikidataQ56137970 ScholiaQ56137970MaRDI QIDQ2849016FDOQ2849016

Authors: Jeffrey C. Lagarias 

Publication date: 16 September 2013

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

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.

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

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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)

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