Title

Stirling's Formula and Its Extension for the Gamma Function

Authors

Authors

D. E. Dutkay; C. P. Niculescu;F. Popovici

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Am. Math. Mon.

Keywords

PROOF; Mathematics

Abstract

We present new short proofs for both Stirling's formula and Stirling's formula for the Gamma function. Our approach in the first case relies upon analysis of Wallis' formula, while the second result follows from the log-convexity property of the Gamma function.

Journal Title

American Mathematical Monthly

Volume

120

Issue/Number

8

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.120.08.737

Language

English

First Page

737

Last Page

740

WOS Identifier

WOS:000324973900006

ISSN

0002-9890

Recommended Citation

"Stirling's Formula and Its Extension for the Gamma Function" (2013). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 3927.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/3927