Wokół liczb i szeregów harmonicznych

Damian Wiśniewski

Abstract


The harmonic series is one of the most celebrated infinite series ofmathematics. From a pedagogical point of view, the harmonic series providesa wealth of opportunities. Applications such as Gabriel’s wedding cake andEuler’s proof of the divergence of prime numbers can lead to some verynice discussions. The main idea of this article is to survey some of unusual,insightful and inspiring divergence proofs. First of all, this article is addressedat first-year calculus students.

Keywords


harmonic numbers, harmonic series, divergence

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