and predicts infinitely many previously unknown numerical identities, which can be checked to be true to many decimal places.
And did Euler check them?
Polya reports on Euler performing such checks. I don’t know how many he did – one would have to look at the original papers (which are in Latin), and even they probably omit some of the plausibility checks that Euler did.
And did Euler check them?
Polya reports on Euler performing such checks. I don’t know how many he did – one would have to look at the original papers (which are in Latin), and even they probably omit some of the plausibility checks that Euler did.