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Mathematics : Sequences, Series, Summability

Vălean, Cornel Ioan, Teremia Mare, Timiş County, Romania

(Almost) Impossible
Integrals, Sums, and Series
Presents new and ingenious derivations for classical and original problems
Contains over 500 worked problems
Includes ‘Hints’ sections to guide the reader toward obtaining a solution or to
more information about a problem
This book contains a multitude of challenging problems and solutions that are not commonly
found in classical textbooks. One goal of the book is to present these fascinating mathematical
problems in a new and engaging way and illustrate the connections between integrals, sums,
and series, many of which involve zeta functions, harmonic series, polylogarithms, and various
other special functions and constants. Throughout the book, the reader will find both classical
and new problems, with numerous original problems and solutions coming from the personal
Springer research of the author. Where classical problems are concerned, such as thosegiven in
1st ed. 2019, XXXVIII, 539 p. Olympiads or proposed by famous mathematicians like Ramanujan,the author has come up
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with new, surprising or unconventional ways of obtaining the desired results. The book begins
edition
with a lively foreword by renowned author Paul Nahin and is accessible to those with a good
knowledge of calculus from undergraduate students to researchers, and will appeal to all
mathematical puzzlers who love a good integral or series.
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