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本帖最后由 dodonaomikiki 于 2018-2-23 17:47 编辑
Euler's original derivation of the value
π2
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6
essentially extended observations about finite polynomials and assumed that these same properties hold true for infinite series.
Of course, Euler's original reasoning requires justification (100 years later, Karl Weierstrass proved that Euler's representation of the sine function as an infinite product is valid, by the Weierstrass factorization theorem), but even without justification, by simply obtaining the correct value, he was able to verify it numerically against partial sums of the series. The agreement he observed gave him sufficient confidence to announce his result to the mathematical community.
To follow Euler's argument, recall the Taylor series expansion of the sine function
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