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Variations on a Theme by James Stirling

Diego Dominici

math.CAarXiv:math/0603007

Abstract

We present the history and previous approaches to the proof of Stirling's series. We use a different procedure, based on the asymptotic analysis of the difference equation Γ(z+1)=zΓ(z). The method reproduces Stirling's series very easily and can be extended to use in more complicated difference equations.

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