On Wallis-type products and Pólya's urn schemes

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.121.05.422zbMATH Open1344.11090OpenAlexW2189566662WikidataQ58120354 ScholiaQ58120354MaRDI QIDQ2928638FDOQ2928638

Authors: Iddo Ben-Ari, Diana Hay, Alexander Roitershtein 

Publication date: 10 November 2014

Published in: American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.05.422

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zbMATH Keywords

Euler gamma functionWallis-type infinite productsPólya's urn schemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

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