Poisson's remarkable calculation - a method or a trick? (Q2380724)
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Poisson's remarkable calculation - a method or a trick? (English)
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9 April 2010
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The author shows that Poisson's ingenious method to evaluate the integral of \(\exp(-x^2)\) from 0 to infinity has (unfortunately) no wider applicability as an integration method, for it works only for a single family of functions.
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