Some Divergent Trigonometric Integrals

DOI10.2307/2695797MaRDI QIDQ2730834zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erik Talvila

Publication date 26 March 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0101011

zbMATH Keywords

Fresnel integralshandbooks of integralstrigonometric integrals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incomplete beta and gamma functions (error functions, probability integral, Fresnel integrals) (33B20) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Numerical methods for trigonometric approximation and interpolation (65T40)

Abstract: Some divergent trigonometric integrals have appeared in standard tables for many years, listed as converging. We give a simple proof that these integrals diverge and trace their history. The original error was made when a (startlingly) famous mathematician incorrectly differentiated under the integral sign with some convergent integrals that depend on a paramater.

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