304 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 2010 by Princeton University Press.
Julian Havil: Gamma (2010, Princeton University Press)
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Exploring Euler's constant. Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) introduced gamma as the limit of the sum of 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + . . . up to 1/n, minus the natural logarithm of n--the numerical value being 0.5772156. Unlike its more celebrated colleagues p and e, the exact nature of gamma remains a mystery.
Subjects
- Euler, leonhard, 1707-1783
- Mathematical constants