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Wallis's Product, Brouncker's Continued Fraction, and Leibniz's Series

✍ Scribed by Jacques Dutka


Book ID
124885124
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Weight
795 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-9519

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Wallis's product, Brouncker's continued
✍ Jacques Dutka πŸ“‚ Article πŸ“… 1982 πŸ› Springer-Verlag 🌐 English βš– 585 KB

A historical sketch is given of WALLIS'S infinite product for 4/~, and of the attempts which have been made, over more than three centuries, to find the method by which BROUNCKER obtained his equivalent continued fraction. A derivation of BROUNCKER'S formula is given. Early results obtained by India