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Sums of powers of integers: a little of the history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

A. W. F. Edwards
A. W. F. Edwards*
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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The lack of any obvious pattern amongst the Bernoulli numbers is one of the shocks of analysis which subsequent familiarity with the many beautiful and simple means of deriving them does not altogether assuage. Historically, they first arose in connection with the sums of the rth powers of the first n integers

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 66 , Issue 435 , March 1982 , pp. 22 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1982

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