Related papers: Generalising the Wallis Product
We use well-known limit theorems in probability theory to derive a Wallis-type product formula for the gamma function. Our result immediately provides a probabilistic proof of Wallis's product formula for $\pi$, as well as the duplication…
The present note generalizes a well-known formula for pi/2 named after the English mathematician John Wallis. The two new formulas for infinite products containing the natural numbers and their roots express them using the Euler-Mascheroni…
We generalize Wallis's 1655 infinite product for $\pi/2$ to one for $(\pi/K)\csc(\pi/K)$, as well as give new Wallis-type products for $\pi/4, 2, \sqrt{2+\sqrt2}, 2\pi/3\sqrt3,$ and other constants. The proofs use a classical infinite…
Using mostly elementary results and functions from probability, we prove Wallis's formula for pi: pi/2 = prod_n (2n * 2n) / ((2n-1) * (2n+1)). The proof involves normalization constants and the Gamma function, Standard normal, and the…
One of the earliest examples of analytic representations for $\pi$ is given by an infinite product provided by Wallis in 1655. The modern literature often presents this evaluation based on the integral formula $$ \frac{2}{\pi} \int_0^\infty…
From a global series for the alternating zeta function, we derive an infinite product for pi that resembles the product for $e^\gamma$ ($\gamma$ is Euler's constant) in math.CA/0306008. (An alternate derivation accelerates Wallis's product…
We prove a generalization of the Wallis product for a sequence of real numbers related to arc lengths of clover curves. Our proof generalizes a common argument given for the original Wallis product using a sequence of definite integrals.
We generalize the derivation of the Wallis formula for $\pi$ from a variational computation of the spectrum of the Hydrogen atom. We obtain infinite product formulas for certain combinations of gamma functions, which include irrational…
Scientists often re-invent things that were long known. Here we review these activities as related to the mechanism of producing power law distributions, originally proposed in 1922 by Yule to explain experimental data on the sizes of…
Based on the $\kappa$-deformed functions ($\kappa$-exponential and $\kappa$-logarithm) and associated multiplication operation ($\kappa$-product) introduced by Kaniadakis (Phys. Rev. E \textbf{66} (2002) 056125), we present another…
We consider products of $q$-gamma functions with rational arguments, and prove several $q$-generalizations of recent works concerning products of gamma functions. In particular, we consider products indexed by Dirichlet characters, and…
We show that there are four possibilities for the product of all elements in the multiplicative group of a quotient of the ring of integers in a number field, and give precise conditions for each of the possibilities to occur. This…
The Stirling approximation formula for $n!$ dates from 1730. Here we give new and instructive proofs of this and related approximation formulae via tools of probability and statistics. There are connections to the Central Limit Theorem and…
In 1947 Nathan Fine gave a beautiful product for the number of binomial coefficients $\binom{n}{m}$, for $m$ in the range $0 \leq m \leq n$, that are not divisible by $p$. We give a matrix product that generalizes Fine's formula,…
An asymptotic expansion of a ratio of products of gamma functions is derived. It generalizes a formula which was stated by Dingle, first proved by Paris, and recently reconsidered by Olver.
We give a new proof for a product formula of Jacobi which turns out to be equivalent to a $q$-trigonometric product which was stated without proof by Gosper. We apply this formula to derive a $q$-analogue for the Gauss multiplication…
For all integers $n\geq1$, let \begin{align*} W_n(p,q)=\prod_{j=1}^{n}\left\{e^{-p/j}\left(1+\frac{p}{j}+\frac{q}{j^2}\right)\right\} \end{align*} and \begin{align*} R_n(p,…
In this article, we derive, using Fourier series and multiple derivative of the function $\pi/\sin(\pi x)$, series representations for positive powers of $\pi$. We also show that the Euler-Wallis product can be easily obtained from the same…
In this paper, we study the holomorphic function defined by the infinite product $\Gamma_{a,r}(s) =\prod_{n \geq 0} (1 + \frac{1}{a+ nr})^s (1 + \frac{s}{a+nr})^{-1}$ which generalize Euler's definition in the sense that $\Gamma(s) =…
Transcription into modern notations of the derivation by Stirling and De Moivre of an asymptotic series for $\log(n!)$, usually called Stirling's series. The previous discovery by Wallis of an infinite product for $\pi$, and later results…