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Euler and his work on infinite series

Author(s): V. S. Varadarajan
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 515-539.
MSC (2000): Primary 01A50, 40G10, 11M99
Posted: June 26, 2007
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V. S. Varadarajan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1555
Email: vsv@math.ucla.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01175-5
PII: S 0273-0979(07)01175-5
Received by editor(s): April 20, 2007
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 23, 2007
Posted: June 26, 2007
Dedicated: For the 300th anniversary of Leonhard Euler's birth
Copyright of article: Copyright 2007, American Mathematical Society
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