Lars Holst: Probabilistic proofs of Euler identities
Lars Holst, KTH
Time: Wed 2013-03-13 15.15
Location: The Cramér room (room 306), Kräftriket, Department of mathematics, Stockholm university
Using the hyperbolic secant probability distribution Euler´s beautiful answer π²/6 for the “Basel problem” is proved. We also consider some related problems and Euler’s infinite product for the sine.