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Towards Euler’s Product Formula and Riemann’s Extension of the Zeta Function

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There is a very close connection between the sums of the reciprocals of the integers raised to a variable power that Euler wrote down in 1737, the now-called zeta function.

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Dittrich, W. (2018). Towards Euler’s Product Formula and Riemann’s Extension of the Zeta Function. In: Reassessing Riemann's Paper. SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91482-4_1

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