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A new irrationality measure of π2

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Speaker: 
W. Zudilin
Date: 
Wed, 08/04/2015 - 14:15 - 15:15
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Number theory lunch seminar

In my talk I will give details of a new (hypergeometric) construction of rational approximations to $\zeta(2)=\pi^2/6$ that leads to the new upper bound 5.095412 for the irrationality exponent of the number.

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