A WZ proof of Ramanujan's Formula for Pi

I present here a collection of formulas inspired from the Ramanujan Notebooks. These formulas were found using an experimental method based on three widely available symbolic computation programs: PARI-Gp, Maple and Mathematica. A new formula is presented for Zeta(5).

In terms of the hypergeometric method, we establish the extensions of two formulas for $1/\pi$ due to Ramanujan [27]. Further, other five summation formulas for $1/\pi$ with free parameters are also derived in the same way.

We make a summary of the different types of proofs adding some new ideas. In addition we conjecture some relations which could be necessary in "modular type proofs" (not still found) of the Ramanujan-like series for 1/\pi^2.

This article is about Pi Formulas, infinite series of fractions which sum to multiples of Pi. Each such one can be associated with a unique set $S_k$ of rough numbers, where $k$ is a prime number. Given $S_k$ for any prime $k$, the set $S_{k^{\prime}}$, where $k^{\prime}$ is the smallest prime greater than $k$, can be constructed easily. From this it follows that Pi Formulas occur in disjoint families. In any family, there is a first member, a series of least prime number $k_...

We explain the use and set grounds about applicability of algebraic transformations of arithmetic hypergeometric series for proving Ramanujan's formulae for $1/\pi$ and their generalisations.

Throughout more than two millennia many formulas have been obtained, some of them beautiful, to calculate the number pi. Among them, we can find series, infinite products, expansions as continued fractions and expansions using radicals. Some expressions which are (amazingly) related to pi have been evaluated. In addition, a continual battle has been waged just to break the records computing digits of this number; records have been set using rapidly converging series, ultra fa...

This paper considers some infinite series involving the Riemann zeta function.

Already in 1734 Euler found a short explicit formula for the value of Riemann zeta function Zeta(s) when the argument s equals a positive integer 2n where n=1,2,3,. No such formula exists for odd positive integer arguments of Zeta. The present paper discusses in particular the case of Zeta(3). A formula for Zeta(3) is obtained which in addition to a number of well known constants includes a rapidly converging infinite series, of which each term contains rational numbers and a...

We use a method of translation to recover Borweins' quadratic and quartic iterations. Then, by using the WZ-method, we obtain some initial values which lead to the limit $1/\pi$. We will not use the modular theory nor either the Gauss' formula that we used in another paper. Our proofs are short and self-contained.

We give a new appraisal of a famous oscillating power series considered by Hardy and Ramanujan related to the erroneous theory of distribution of primes by Ramanujan.