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2001 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Irrationality of the Sum of Some Reciprocals

verfasst von : Michal Křížek, Florian Luca, Lawrence Somer

Erschienen in: 17 Lectures on Fermat Numbers

Verlag: Springer New York

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Let {n k } k≥1 be an increasing sequence of positive integers. In this chapter we investigate some conditions under which the sum of the series (10.1) $$ \sum\limits_{k \geqslant 1} {\frac{1}{{{n_k}}}} $$ is an irrational number, and then we apply these results to the case for which the sequence {n k } k>1 is the sequence of Fermat numbers.

Metadaten
Titel
The Irrationality of the Sum of Some Reciprocals
verfasst von
Michal Křížek
Florian Luca
Lawrence Somer
Copyright-Jahr
2001
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21850-2_10

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