“Harmonic Series”的概念、定义、习题解题方法及翻译-数学辞典

单词

Harmonic Series

释义

Harmonic Series

The Sum

(1)

is called the harmonic series. It can be shown to Diverge using the Integral Test bycomparison with the function

. The divergence, however, is very slow. In fact, the sum

(2)

taken over all Primes

also diverges. The generalization of the harmonic series

(3)

is known as the Riemann Zeta Function.

The sum of the first few terms of the harmonic series is given analytically by the th Harmonic Number

(4)

where

is the Euler-Mascheroni Constant and

is the Digamma Function.The number of terms needed to exceed 1, 2, 3, ... are 1, 4, 11, 31, 83, 227, 616, 1674, 4550, 12367, 33617, 91380, 248397, ...(Sloane's A004080).Using the analytic form shows that after

terms, the sum is still less than 20. Furthermore,to achieve a sum greater than 100, more than

terms are needed!

Progressions of the form

(5)

are also sometimes called harmonic series (Beyer 1987).

See also Arithmetic Series, Bernoulli's Paradox, Book Stacking Problem, Euler Sum, Zipf's Law

References

Arfken, G. Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, pp. 279-280, 1985.

Beyer, W. H. (Ed.). CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, 28th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 8, 1987.

Boas, R. P. and Wrench, J. W. ``Partial Sums of the Harmonic Series.'' Amer. Math. Monthly 78, 864-870, 1971.

Honsberger, R. ``An Intriguing Series.'' Ch. 10 in Mathematical Gems II. Washington, DC: Math. Assoc. Amer., pp. 98-103, 1976.

Sloane, N. J. A. Sequence A004080in ``The On-Line Version of the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.''http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/eisonline.html.

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