The Basel Problem: 1+1/2² + 1/3² +… = π²/6
Solving the Basel problem, using an elementary introduction to Fourier series! Part 0: Motivation, some History, and Welcome! Hello and welcome! We are going to be tackling a beautiful problem, the ‘Basel Problem’. It was posed in 1650 by Pietro Mengoli, and it took 84 years to solve it, when the brilliant Euler did so. Euler’s proof was brilliant, but also not […]