Friday, November 27, 2015

sequences and series - Sum of $frac{1}{n^{2}}$ for $n = 1 ,2 ,3, ...$?








I just got the "New and Revised" edition of "Mathematics: The New Golden Age", by Keith Devlin. On p. 64 it says the sum is $\pi^2/6$, but that's way off. $\pi^2/6 \approx 1.64493406685$ whereas the sum in question is $\approx 1.29128599706$. I'm expecting the sum to be something interesting, but I've forgotten how to do these things.

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