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In mathematics, sophomore's dream is a name occasionally used for the identities (especially the first) : discovered in 1697 by Johann Bernoulli. The name "sophomore's dream", which appears in , is in contrast to the name "freshman's dream" which is given to the incorrect〔Incorrect unless one is working over a field or unital commutative ring of prime characteristic ''n'' or a factor of ''n''. The correct result is given by the binomial theorem.〕 equation . The sophomore's dream has a similar too-good-to-be-true feel, but is in fact true. == Proof == We prove the second identity; the first is completely analogous. The key ingredients of the proof are: * Write ''x''''x'' = exp(''x'' log ''x''). * Expand exp(''x'' log ''x'') using the power series for exp. * Integrate termwise. * Integrate by substitution. Expand ''x''''x'' as : Therefore, we have : By uniform convergence of the power series, we may interchange summation and integration : To evaluate the above integrals we perform the change of variable in the integral , with , giving us : By the well-known Euler's integral identity for the Gamma function : so that: : Summing these (and changing indexing so it starts at ''n'' = 1 instead of ''n'' = 0) yields the formula. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sophomore's dream」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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