Timeline for Closed form for $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{1+n+n^2+\cdots+n^a}$
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 7:50 | answer | added | Alexey Ustinov | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 7:46 | answer | added | Fedor Petrov | timeline score: 15 | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 7:06 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 7:05 | comment | added | Christian Remling | Have you tried the old trick of contour integration of $\int \cot\pi z/P(z)\, dz$ over a large square, where $P(z)=(z^{a+1}-1)/(z-1)$ is your polynomial? This should work fine for $\deg P\ge 3$. | |
| Oct 13, 2015 at 4:41 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 4:40 | history | asked | Tdonut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |