Notes on Euler's work on divergent factorial series and their associated continued fractions
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Notes on Euler's work on divergent factorial series and their associated continued fractions
zbMATH Open document ID: 1203.11023
author: Trond Digernes
author: V. S. Varadarajan
published in: Indian Journal of Pure \& Applied Mathematics
publication date: 2010-07-09T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(f=1-1!x+2!x^2-3!x^3+\ldots \). Euler obtained a continued fraction for the formal series \(f\): \[ f=[1,x,x,2x,2x,3x,3x,\ldots,nx,nx,\ldots]. \] The authors present a proof of this and establish more general identities.
reviewed by: Florin Nicolae
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11B65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 40A15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 33C05
zbMATH DE Number: 5734648
zbMATH Keywords: factorial series
zbMATH Keywords: continued fractions
zbMATH Keywords: divergent series
zbMATH Keywords: hypergeometric continued fractions
zbMATH Keywords: Sturmian sequences
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s13226-010-0019-8
OpenAlex ID: W2002855031
cites work: Euler's 1760 paper on divergent series
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cites work: Hypergeometric series and continued fractions
DOI: 10.1007/S13226-010-0019-8
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5734648