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Euler evaluates the integrals in the title and recognizes a recursion between them, which he then uses to give continued fractions for the log and arctan. The paper is translated from Euler's Latin original into German.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2012-02-02 Leonhard Euler , Artur Diener , Alexander Aycock

In 1737 Leonard Euler gave what we often now think of as a new proof, based on infinite series, of Euclid's theorem that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Our short paper uses a simple modification of Euler's argument to obtain new…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles W. Neville

This is a translation of Euler's Latin paper "De fractionibus continuis observationes" into English. In this paper Euler describes his theory of continued fractions. He teaches, how to transform series into continued fractions, solves the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Leonhard Euler , Alexander Aycock

In this note, we look at some of the less explored aspects of the gamma function. We provide a new proof of Euler's reflection formula and discuss its significance in the theory of special functions. We also discuss a result of Landau…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Ritesh Goenka , Gopala Krishna Srinivasan

For positive integers $p_1,p_2,\ldots,p_k,q$ with $q>1$, we define the Euler $T$-sum $T_{p_1p_2\cdots p_k,q}$ as the sum of those terms of the usual infinite series for the classical Euler sum $S_{p_1p_2\cdots p_k,q}$ with odd denominators.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Ce Xu , Weiping Wang

Let phi denote Euler's phi function. For a fixed odd prime we give an asymptotic series expansion in the sense of Poincare for the number E_q(x) of n<=x such that q does not divide phi(n). Thereby we improve on a recent theorem of B.K.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pieter Moree

Translated from the Latin original, "Observationes generales circa series, quarum termini secundum sinus vel cosinus angulorum multiplorum progrediuntur" (1777). E655 in the Enestrom index. Euler looks at the binomial expansion $(1+x)^n$…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-09-06 Leonhard Euler

We present an elementary inductive proof which Euler could have obtained, for the corresponding result as the title indicates, had he refined a bit his proof for Fermat's assertion on representing primes as two squares.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ying Zhang

Euler discovered recurrence for divisor sum functions as a consequence of the pentagonal numbers theorem. With similar idea and also motivated by Ewell's work in 1977, we prove new recurrences for certain divisor sum functions and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Masato Kobayashi

We extend the recently developed theory of Roehrig and Zwegers on indefinite theta functions to prove certain power series are modular forms. As a consequence, we obtain several power series identities for powers of the generating function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Toshiki Matsusaka , Miyu Suzuki

We consider the theory of algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero with multivalued operations $x\mapsto x^r$ (raising to powers). It is in fact the theory of equations in exponential sums. In an earlier paper we have described…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Boris Zilber

Translated from the Latin original "Facillima methodus plurimos numeros primos praemagnos inveniendi" (1778). E718 in the Enestrom index. If m is a number of the form 4k+1 and is a sum of two relatively prime squares, then it is prime if…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2008-08-23 Leonhard Euler

We show that the iterative logarithm of each non-linear entire function is differentially transcendental over the ring of entire functions, and we give a sufficient criterion for such an iterative logarithm to be differentially…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Matthias Aschenbrenner , Walter Bergweiler

This paper is concerned with the study of the fractional finite sums theory. We present the classes of functions for which it is possible to characterize the constant related to the derivative of fractional sums (denominated by essence of a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Leonardo F. Bielinski , Giuliano G. La Guardia , Jocemar Q. Chagas

In this paper, we shall prove that any subset of $\overline{\mathbb Q}\cap B(0,1)$, which is closed under complex conjugation and which contains the element $0$, is the exceptional set of uncountably many transcendental functions, analytic…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-01 Diego Marques , Carlos Gustavo Moreira

I relate some coefficients encountered when computing the functional determinants on spheres to the central differentials of nothing. In doing this I use some historic works, in particular transcribing the elegant symbolic formalism of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-29 J. S. Dowker

This note deals with some effective results in Mahler's method. In a recent work, we used a theorem of Philippon to show that given a Mahler function $f(z)$ in ${\bf k}\{z\}$, where ${\bf k}$ denotes a number field, and an algebraic number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Boris Adamczewski , Colin Faverjon

This paper explores closed-form expressions for some polylogarithm integrals with integrands containing five parameters. These closed form expressions are given in terms of the Lerch transcendent function, which reduces, in some cases, to…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Ali Olaikhan

The main purpose of this article is to provide new results on algebraic independence of values of Mahler functions and their generalizations. Simultaneously, we establish new measures of algebraic independence for these values. Among the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Evgeniy Zorin

Euler starts with a hypergeometric series F(a, b, c, x), and differentiates it to get a functional relation. This relation is today known as Euler's identity. Then he integrates to get another and ends up with something like Legendre…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2012-01-27 Leonhard Euler , Artur Diener , Alexander Aycock