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A Short Proof of Stirling’s Formula

Authors :
Hongwei Lou
Source :
The American Mathematical Monthly. 121:154
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2014.

Abstract

By changing variables in a suitable way and using dominated convergence methods, this note gives a short proof of Stirling's formula and its refinement.

Subjects

Subjects :
Dominated convergence theorem
Pure mathematics
Stirling engine
law
General Mathematics
Stirling's approximation
Spouge's approximation
Mathematics
law.invention

Details

ISSN :
00029890
Volume :
121
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The American Mathematical Monthly
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........3c27d9809361fe7d6f0aed5d28ee8523

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