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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-May
Pages: 6
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The Basel Problem as a Rearrangement of Series
Benko, David; Molokach, John
College Mathematics Journal, v44 n3 p171-176 May 2013
We give an elementary solution to the famous Basel Problem, originally solved by Euler in 1735. We square the well-known series for arctan(1) due to Leibniz, and use a surprising relation among the re-arranged terms of this squared series.
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