Series representations for some mathematical constants

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 320, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 145-162

  Alzer, Horst ^a   Karayannakis, Dimitri ^b   Srivastava, H M ^c  

^a Technological Education Institute of Crete ^*  (Germany)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

; 2; 3; 4; Ap ry's constant; Catalan's constant; Fractional calculus; Gauss hypergeometric function; Harmonic numbers; Hurwitz (or generalized) zeta function; log 2; log 3; Normalized binomial mid coefficients; Polygamma function; psi (or digamma) function; Series representations; Special functions; Summation of series

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646089417     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2005.06.059     Document Type: Article

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