A Short Proof of Stirling's Formula

2013/12/18 by Hongwei Lou, Lou, Hongwei
Mathematics · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Functional Equations Stability Results #Mathematics and Applications #math.CA

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.5019

7 pages

arxiv created 2013/12/18 · arxiv updated 2013/12/19

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.

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