Hardcover, 376 pages
English language
Published March 17, 2003 by 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
- Calculus & mathematical analysis
- History of specific subjects
- Popular science
- Mathematical constants
- Arithmetic
- Mathematics
- Science/Mathematics
- Applied
- Euler, Leonhard
- History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science
- Mathematics / History
- History & Philosophy
- 1707-1783
- Euler, Leonhard,