A Proof of Stirling’s Approximation via Contour Integration
Stirling’s approximation gives a useful estimate for large factorials. This post contains a (new?) proof of Stirling’s formula which relies on properties of the Riemann zeta function.
Category Archives: complex analysis
Lattice Points in High-Dimensional Spheres
The Gauss Circle Problem is a classic open problem in number theory concerning the number of lattice points contained in a large circle.
Optimal error bounds are known in these approximations in a generalization of the Gauss Circle Problem to spheres in dimensions four and above.
In this post, I’ll give a purely analytic proof of this result for even dimensions greater than four, and explain why the method fails in the other cases.
Permutation Groups vis-à-vis Conformal Maps of the Riemann Sphere
In this post, we discuss a few ways in which the symmetric and alternating groups can be realized as finite collections of self-maps on the Riemann sphere. We calculate maximal injections of symmetric and alternating groups and discuss when these actions respect a finite invariant set.
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