Probabilistically Proving that ζ(2) = π²⁄6

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.118.07.641zbMATH Open1227.00039DBLPjournals/tamm/Pace11OpenAlexW2406843036WikidataQ58119657 ScholiaQ58119657MaRDI QIDQ3174577FDOQ3174577

Authors: Luigi Pace 

Publication date: 17 October 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.07.641

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann zeta-functionEuler product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Distribution theory (60E99) Functions of one variable (26A99) General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99)

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