A new proof of the irrationality of ζ(2) and ζ(3) using Padé approximants

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-235

  Prevost M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

Diophantine approximation; Pad approximant

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CALCULATIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

APERY SEQUENCES; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; DIOPHANTINE APPROXIMATION; IRRATIONALITY; LOGARITHM; PADE APPROXIMANTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 0030102978     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-0427(95)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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