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Rh of the series $$\frac{1}{1^m}+\frac{1}{3^m}+\frac{1}{5^m}+\cdots$$, and $$W^m$$ that of the series

$$\frac{1}{1^m}-\frac{1}{3^m}+\frac{1}{5^m}-\frac{1}{7^m}+\cdots$$, we obtain by taking logarithms in the formulae (25) and (26) $$ $$ and differentiating these series we get $$ $$ In (31) $$x$$ must lie between $$\pm \pi$$ and in (32) between $$\pm \tfrac{1}{2} \pi$$. Write equation (30) in the form

$$

and expand each term of this series in powers of $$x^2$$, then we get

$$

where $$x$$ must lie between $$\pm \tfrac{1}{2} \pi$$. By comparing the series (31), (32), (33) with the expansions of $$\cot x$$, $$\tan x$$, $$\sec x$$ obtained otherwise, we can calculate the values of $$U_2, U_4 \dots$$ $$V_2, V_4 \dots$$ $$W_1, W_3 \dots$$. When $$U_n$$ has been found, $$V_n$$ may be obtained from the formula $$2^nV^n = (2^n - 1)U_n$$.

For Lord Brounker's series of, see. It can be got at once

by putting $$a = 1$$, $$b = 3$$, $$c = 5$$,$$\dots$$ in Euler's theorem $$= \frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c} - \cdots = \frac{1}{a\;+}\;\frac{a^2}{b-a\;+}\;\frac{b^2}{c-b\;+} \cdots$$

Sylvester gave (Phil. Mag., 1869) the continued fraction

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which is equivalent to Wallis's formula for. This fraction was originally given by Euler (Comm. Acad. Petropol. vol. xi.); it is also given by Stern (in Crelle's Journ. vol. x.).

30. It may be shown by means of a transformation of the series for $$\cos x$$ and $$\frac{\sin x}{x}$$ that $$\tan x = \frac{x}{1\;-}\;\frac{x^2}{3\;-}\;\frac{x^2}{5\;-}\;\frac{x^3}{7\;-} \cdots$$

This may be also easily shown as follows. Let $$y = \cos{\surd x}$$, and let $$y', y'' \dots$$ denote the differential coefficients of $$y$$ with regard to $$x$$, then by forming these we can show that $$4 x y'' + 2 y' + y = 0$$, and thence by Leibnitz's theorem we have

$$

Therefore $$\frac{y}{y'} = - 2 - \frac{4x}{y'/y''}$$, $$\frac{y^n}{y^{(n+1)}} = - 2(2n + 1) - \frac{4x}{y^{(n+1)}/y^{(n+2)}}$$;

hence $$-2\sqrt{x} \cot{\sqrt{x}} = - 2 - \frac{4x}{-\;6\;-}\;\frac{4x}{-\;10\;-}\;\frac{4x}{-\;14\;-}\cdots$$

Replacing $$\surd x$$ by $$x$$ we have $$\tan x = \frac{x}{1\;-}\;\frac{x^2}{3\;-}\;\frac{x^3}{5\;-}\cdots$$

Euler gave the continued fraction

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this was published in ''Mém. de l'acad. de St Pétersb.'' vol. vi. Glaisher has remarked (Mess. of Math. vols. iv.) that this may be derived by forming the differential equation

$$

where $$y = \cos {(n \arccos x)}$$, then replacing $$x$$ by $$\cos x$$, and proceeding as in the former case. If we put $$n = 0$$, this becomes

$$

whence we have

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31. It is possible to make the investigation of the properties of the simple circular functions rest on a purely analytical basis other than the one indicated in § 22. The sine of $$x$$ would be

defined as a function such that, if $$x = \int_0^y\frac{dy}{\surd (1 - y^2)}$$, then $$y = \sin x$$; the quantity $$\frac{\pi}{2}$$ would be defined to be the complete integral $$\int_0^1\frac{dy}{\surd (1 - y^2)}$$. We should then have $$\frac{\pi}{2} - x = \int_y^1\frac{dy}{\surd (1 - y^2)}$$. Now change the variable in the integral to $$z$$, where $$y^2 + z^2 = 1$$, we then have $$\frac{\pi}{2} - x = \int_0^z\frac{dy}{\surd (1 - z^2)}$$, and

$$z$$ must be defined as the cosine of $$x$$, and is thus equal to $$\sin (\frac{1}{2} \pi - x)$$, satisfying the equation $$\sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1$$.

Next consider the differential equation

$$

This is equivalent to

$$

hence the integral is

$$

The constant will be equal to the value $$u$$ of $$y$$ when $$z = 0$$; whence

$$

The integral may also be obtained in the form

$$

Let $$\alpha = \int_0^y \frac{dy}{\surd(1 - y^2)}$$, $$\beta = \int_0^z \frac{dz}{\surd(1 - z^2)}$$, $$\gamma = \int_0^u \frac{du}{\surd(1 - u^2)}$$; we have $$\alpha + \beta = \gamma$$, and $$\sin \gamma = \sin \alpha \cos \beta + \cos \alpha \sin \beta$$, $$\cos \gamma = \cos \alpha \cos \beta - \sin \alpha \sin \beta$$, the addition theorems. By means of the addition theorems and the values $$\sin{\frac{1}{2} \pi} = 1$$, $$\cos{\frac{1}{2} \pi} = 0$$ we can prove that $$\sin {(\frac{1}{2} \pi + x )} = \cos x$$, $$\cos {(\frac{1}{2} \pi + x )} = - \sin x$$; and thence, by another use of the addition theorems, that $$\sin {(\pi + x)} = -\sin x \cos (\pi + x) = -\cos x$$, from which the periodicity of the functions $$\sin x$$, $$cos x$$ follows:—

We have also $$\int \frac{dy}{\surd(1 - y^2)} = -\iota \log_e \{ \surd(1 - y^2) + \iota y \}$$; whence $$\log_e \{ \surd(1 - y^2) + \iota y \} + \log_e \{ \surd(1 - z^2) + \iota z \} =$$ a constant. Therefore $$\{ \surd(1 - y^2) \} + \iota y \{ \surd(1 - z^2) + \iota z\} = \surd(1 - u^2) + \iota u$$, since $$u = y$$ when $$z = 0$$; whence we have the equation

$$

from which De Moivre's theorem follows.

.—Further information will be found in Hobson's Plane Trigonometry, and in Chrystal's Algebra, vol. ii. For further information on the history of the subject, see Braunmühl's Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Trigonometrie (Leipzig, 1900).

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