From powers of cosine to the Basel problem and Wallis’s product
The Basel problem asks for the exact value of the reciprocal-square series; its celebrated evaluation is ∑n=1∞1n2=π26. The problem was posed by Pietro Mengoli in 1650 and famously solved by Euler ...
Authors
- Hsiu-Chuan Yeh
- Hsuan‐Chi Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6001-1823)
Institutions
- University of New England (US)
- The New Press (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Mathematical Gazette
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00255572.2026.2722067
- Primary Topic
- History and Theory of Mathematics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00