Monday, February 17, 2020

Sum of reciprocal squares

There are two parts to the problem

1) Show that $\frac{\pi}{4} \gt \sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}}$

2) Show that $\sum_{n=2}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} \gt \frac{3}{5}$

Incidentally 2) implies 1) and is a stronger result than 1) which has an easier proof.

[Solution]

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