Euler's constant originates from a formula in the Supplement to De Moivre's Miscellanea Analytica (1730) containing the Bernoulli numbers. Due to the Bernoulli numbers this formula is unfortunately divergent, but Euler amends this formula to make it nearly convergent.
Euler's constant originates from a formula in the Supplement to De Moivre's Miscellanea Analytica (1730) containing the Bernoulli numbers. Due to the Bernoulli numbers this formula is unfortunately divergent, but Euler amends this formula to make it nearly convergent.