Euler and his work on infinite series
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Additional Information
- V. S. Varadarajan
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1555
- Email: vsv@math.ucla.edu
- Received by editor(s): April 20, 2007
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 23, 2007
- Published electronically: June 26, 2007
- © Copyright 2007
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 515-539
- MSC (2000): Primary 01A50, 40G10, 11M99
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01175-5
- MathSciNet review: 2338363
Dedicated: For the 300$^{th}$ anniversary of Leonhard Euler’s birth