[R] Off topic --- help in locating a source.
Rolf Turner
rolf at math.unb.ca
Wed May 17 21:27:16 CEST 2006
Apologies for the off-topic question; as usual I'm trying to draw
upon the unparalleled knowledge and sagacity of the r-help list.
Please reply off-list if you can help me out.
A collaborator of mine found a formula we need, on sheets which he had
photocopied out of a book, some years ago. He cannot remember which
book (he's getting to be as senile and forgetful as I am, poor
bloke!). He thinks it was (and it appears to have been) a large
encylopedic tome devoted to extensive tables of formulae, integrals
and series, and stuff like that.
The formula in question is
oo 1 1 1
SUM --- cos(k*x) = --- ln (----------------) 0 < x < 2*pi .
k=1 k 2 2*(1 - cos(x))
(I.e. the right hand side is a function whose Fourier coefficients
are 1/k, k > 0).
Note that ``oo'' is my attempt to render the infinity symbol in
ASCII.
Does anyone know of a source where this formula may found/cited?
(It doesn't *have* to be the same source from which my collaborator
originally copied it!) It must be well-known/in lots of books,
mustn't it? Said he, hopefully.
Thanks for any assistance.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
rolf at math.unb.ca
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