Probabilistic Proofs of Euler Identities

DOI10.1239/jap/1389370108zbMath1295.33002OpenAlexW2008284771MaRDI QIDQ5407038

Lars Holst

Publication date: 4 April 2014

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jap/1389370108

zbMATH Keywords

Euler numberBasel problemtangent numberhyperbolic secant distributionEuler's sine product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Exponential and trigonometric functions (33B10)

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