Domb's numbers and Ramanujan-Sato type series for 1/π

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 396-410

  Chan, Heng Huat ^a   Chan, Song Heng ^b   Liu, Zhiguo ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clausen's identity; Differential equations; Domb's numbers; Hypergeometric series; Modular equations; Ramanujan type series; Theta functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042814546     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2003.07.012     Document Type: Article

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