The early history of the factorial function
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The early history of the factorial function
zbMATH Open document ID: 0766.01009
DOI: 10.1007/BF00389433
author: Jacques Dutka
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The author looks at the early history of the factorial function and analyses the work of De Moivre, Stirling, D. Bernoulli, Euler, Legendre and finally Gauss to this topic. Various formulas and approximations of the factorial function are described in detail.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
zbMATH DE Number: 148366
zbMATH Keywords: functorial function
zbMATH Keywords: representation of \(n'\)
zbMATH Keywords: De Moivre
zbMATH Keywords: Stirling
zbMATH Keywords: D. Bernoulli
zbMATH Keywords: Euler
zbMATH Keywords: Legendre
zbMATH Keywords: Gauss
Wikidata QID: Q56139017
reviewed by: Karl Heinz Schlote
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: Q5534179
cites work: The early history of the hypergeometric function
cites work: Q5815728
cites work: Der Mathematiker Abraham de Moivre (1667--1754)
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 148366