Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Gamma function
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Fourier series expansion === The [[#Log-gamma function|logarithm of the gamma function]] has the following [[Fourier series]] expansion for <math>0 < z < 1:</math> <math display="block">\operatorname{log\Gamma}(z) = \left(\frac{1}{2} - z\right)(\gamma + \log 2) + (1 - z)\log\pi - \frac{1}{2}\log\sin(\pi z) + \frac{1}{\pi}\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\log n}{n} \sin (2\pi n z),</math> which was for a long time attributed to [[Ernst Kummer]], who derived it in 1847.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Harry |last1=Bateman |first2=Arthur |last2=Erdélyi |title=Higher Transcendental Functions |publisher=McGraw-Hill |date=1955 |oclc=627135 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=H. M. |last1=Srivastava |first2=J. |last2=Choi |title=Series Associated with the Zeta and Related Functions |publisher=Kluwer Academic |location=The Netherlands |date=2001 |isbn=0-7923-7054-6 }}</ref> However, [[Iaroslav Blagouchine]] discovered that [[Carl Johan Malmsten]] first derived this series in 1842.<ref name="iaroslav_06">{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s11139-013-9528-5 |first=Iaroslav V. |last=Blagouchine |title=Rediscovery of Malmsten's integrals, their evaluation by contour integration methods and some related results |journal=Ramanujan J. |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=21–110 |date=2014 |s2cid=120943474 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257381156}}</ref><ref name="iaroslav_06bis">{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s11139-015-9763-z |first=Iaroslav V. |last=Blagouchine |title=Erratum and Addendum to "Rediscovery of Malmsten's integrals, their evaluation by contour integration methods and some related results" |journal=Ramanujan J. |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=777–781 |date=2016 |s2cid=125198685 }}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)