A Very Short Proof of Stirling's Formula

DOI10.2307/2323256zbMath0684.33001OpenAlexW2322850408MaRDI QIDQ4734100

J. M. Patin

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/39ec5caa158b9cff377ed3a6b7fb2bfef20dae60

zbMATH Keywords

Stirling's formulaGamma function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Asymptotic representations in the complex plane (30E15)

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