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In this chapter we turn our attention to some of the most basic summation formulas. The list is quite short (e.g., the binomial theorem, arithmetic- and geometric-series formulas, elementary power-series formulas) but we shall see that a few standard techniques (e.g. telescoping, differentiation, integration) make them extremely versatile and powerful.
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Larson, L.C. (1983). Summation of Series. In: Problem-Solving Through Problems. Problem Books in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5498-0_5
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