Summing an Alternating Series

DOI10.2307/2321292MaRDI QIDQ3860718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Johnsonbaugh

Publication date 1979

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2321292

zbMATH Keywords

acceleration of convergencealternating seriesBernoulli numbersEuler-Maclaurin formulafinite differencesinfinite seriesnumerical resultssharp remainder estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Approximation to limiting values (summation of series, etc.) (40A25) Numerical summation of series (65B10) Euler-Maclaurin formula in numerical analysis (65B15)

Cited in

(9)

• Best approximations of alternating series
• The Fourier-series method for inverting transforms of probability distributions
• Gradient estimates for SDEs without monotonicity type conditions
• On Leibniz series defined by convex functions
• A generalized birth-death stochastic model for high-frequency order book dynamics
• The Error in an Alternating Series
• Numerical inversion for Laplace transforms of functions with discontinuities
• Sharp estimate of the remainder of some alternating series
• Estimating the remainder of an alternating p-series using hypergeometric functions

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