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In this paper, by introducing a new operation in the vector space of Laurent series, the author derived explicit series for the values of $\zeta$-funtion at positive integers, where $\zeta$ denotes the Riemann zeta function. The values of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Chenfeng He

In this paper, we established a sharp version of the difference analogue of the celebrated H\"{o}lder's theorem concerning the differential independence of the Euler gamma function $\Gamma$. More precisely, if $P$ is a polynomial of $n+1$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Qiongyan Wang , Xiao Yao

In this article, we derive a Euler prime product formula for the magnitude of the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(s)$ valid for $\Re(s)>1$, as well as similar formulas for $\zeta(s)$ valid for an even and odd $k$th positive integer argument.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Artur Kawalec

An elementary approach for computing the values at negative integers of the Riemann zeta function is presented. The approach is based on a new method for ordering the integers and a new method for summation of divergent series. We show that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-12 Armen Bagdasaryan

We establish a connection between a function and a series representation using a similar technique with that that Euler used to solve the Basel problem. Our result concerns a more general series from which one can obtain $\zeta(2k)$ as a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Marius Costandin

The partial fraction expansion of coth($\pi$z), due to Euler, is generalized to power series having for coefficients the Riemann zeta function evaluated at certain arithmetic sequences. A further generalization using arbitrary Dirichlet…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Claude Henri Picard

In this paper, we give a short elementary proof of the well known Euler's recurrence formula for the Riemann zeta function at positive even integers and integral representations of the Riemann zeta function at positive integers and at…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Jiamei Liu , Yuxia Huang , Chuancun Yin

We provide a $q$-analogue of Euler's formula for $\zeta(2k)$ for $k\in\mathbb{Z}^+$. Our main results are stated in Theorems 3.1 and 3.2 below. The result generalizes a recent result of Z.W. Sun who obtained $q$-analogues of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Ankush Goswami

We show that an apparently overlooked result of Euler from \cite{E421} is essentially equivalent to the general multiplication formula for the $\Gamma$-function that was proven by Gauss in \cite{Ga28}.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Alexander Aycock

An elementary method of computing the values at negative integers of the Riemann zeta function is presented. The principal ingredient is a new q-analogue of the Riemann zeta function. We show that for any argument other than 1 the classical…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masanobu Kaneko , Nobushige Kurokawa , Masato Wakayama

In this paper, an elementary method to find the values of the Riemann Zeta function at even natural numbers, and to find values of a closely related series at odd natural numbers is presented. Another method, specifically for the evaluation…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-10-31 Dhrushil Badani

Ramanujan derived the well known divergent-sum of integers in more than one way. We generalise the informal method to higher powers of the Riemann zeta function through a study of the Eulerian numbers in particular. Within the context of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Patrick J. Burchell

The double zeta function is a function of two arguments defined by a double Dirichlet series, and was first studied by Euler in response to a letter from Goldbach in 1742. By calculating many examples, Euler inferred a closed form…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-08-01 David M. Bradley

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

For Hurwitz zeta function, we obtain power series expression in second variable for its higher order derivatives (with respect to first variable) at non-positive integer arguments and consequently obtain rapidly decreasing series expression…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-21 Vivek V. Rane

In this paper we present a method to derive Eulerian continued fractions arising from a sequence of integrals. As examples, through a new derivation, we reproduce classical continued fraction expansions for the natural logarithm, the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Ishan Joshi

A new definition for the Dirichlet beta function for positive integer arguments is discovered and presented for the first time. This redefinition of the Dirichlet beta function, based on the polygamma function for some special values,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Michael A. Idowu

The double zeta function was first studied by Euler in response to a letter from Goldbach in 1742. One of Euler's results for this function is a decomposition formula, which expresses the product of two values of the Riemann zeta function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 David M. Bradley

In this paper we give some interesting identities between Euler numbers and zeta functions. Finally we will give the new values of Euler zeta function at positive even integers.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Taekyun Kim

The sum formula is a basic identity of multiple zeta values that expresses a Riemann zeta value as a homogeneous sum of multiple zeta values of a given dimension. This formula was already known to Euler in the dimension two case,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-18 Li Guo , Bingyong Xie