A probabilistic proof of Wallis's formula for

DOI10.1080/00029890.2008.11920586MaRDI QIDQ3107130zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven J. Miller

Publication date 1 January 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2181, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27642585

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Evaluation of number-theoretic constants (11Y60) Number theory (educational aspects) (97F60) Probability theory (educational aspects) (97K50) Sequences and series (educational aspects) (97I30)

Abstract: Using mostly elementary results and functions from probability, we prove Wallis's formula for pi: pi/2 = prod_n (2n * 2n) / ((2n-1) * (2n+1)). The proof involves normalization constants and the Gamma function, Standard normal, and the Student t-Distribution.

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