From Madhava-Leibniz to Lehmer's limit

DOI10.1080/00029890.2022.2051405MaRDI QIDQ5082413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paul Thomas Young

Publication date 16 June 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2022.2051405

zbMATH Keywords

Lehmer's formulaLehmer's limitsequencesseries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Approximation to limiting values (summation of series, etc.) (40A25) Convergence and divergence of series and sequences of functions (40A30)

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• New evaluations of inverse binomial series via cyclotomic multiple zeta values

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