Fun With Fourier Series

MaRDI QIDQ6209743zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert Baillie

Publication date 1 June 2008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces (42-01) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to sequences, series, summability (40-01)

Abstract: By using computers to do experimental manipulations on Fourier series, we construct additional series with interesting properties. We construct several series whose sums remain unchanged when the $n^{th}$ term is multiplied by $sin(n)/n$. One example is this classic series for $pi/4$: [ frac{pi}{4} = 1 - frac{1}{3} + frac{1}{5} - frac{1}{7} + dots = 1 cdot frac{sin(1)}{1} - frac{1}{3} cdot frac{sin(3)}{3} + frac{1}{5} cdot frac{sin(5)}{5} - frac{1}{7} cdot frac{sin(7)}{7} + dots . ] Another example is [ sum_{n=1}^{infty} frac{sin(n)}{n} = sum_{n=1}^{infty} left(frac{sin(n)}{n} ight)^2 = frac{pi-1}{2}. ] This paper also discusses an included Mathematica package that makes it easy to calculate and graph the Fourier series of many types of functions.

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