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The Real And Complex Number Systems

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Remark: (1) <strong>The</strong> reader can see the book, Infinite Series by Chao<br />

Wen-Min, pp 355-366. (Chinese Version)<br />

(2) <strong>The</strong>re are some special polynomials worth studying, such as Legengre<br />

Polynomials. <strong>The</strong> reader can see the book, Essentials of Ordinary<br />

Differential Equations by Ravi P. Agarwal and Ramesh C. Gupta.<br />

pp 305-312.<br />

(3) <strong>The</strong> part (h) tells us one formula to calculte the value of the finite<br />

series ∑ m<br />

k=1 kn . <strong>The</strong>re is an interesting story from the mail that Fermat,<br />

pierre de (1601-1665) sent to Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). Fermat<br />

used the Mathematical Induction to show that<br />

n∑<br />

k (k + 1) · · · (k + p) =<br />

k=1<br />

n (n + 1) · · · (n + p + 1)<br />

. (*)<br />

p + 2<br />

In terms of (*), we can obtain another formula on ∑ m<br />

k=1 kn .<br />

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