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" I like explicit, hands-on formulas. To me they have a beauty of their own. They can be deep or not. As an example, imagine you have a series of numbers such that if you add 1 to any number you will get the product of its left and right neighbors. Then this series will repeat itself at every fifth step! For instance, if you start with 3, 4 then the sequence continues: 3, 4, 5/3, 2/3, 1, 3, 4, 5/3, etc. The difference between a mathematician and a nonmathematician is not just being able to discover something like this, but to care about it and to be curious about why it's true, what it means, and what other things in mathematics it might be connected with. In this particular case, the statement itself turns out to be connected with a myriad of deep topics in advanced mathematics: hyperbolic geometry, algebraic K-theory, the Schrodinger equation of quantum mechanics, and certain models of quantum field theory. I find this kind of connection between very elementary and very deep mathematics overwhelmingly beautiful."
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로저스 다이로그 함수 \(L(x)\)에 대하여 다음이 성립한다
\(0\leq x,y\leq 1\) 일 때,
\(L(x)+L(1-xy)+L(y)+L(\frac{1-y}{1-xy})+L\Left( \frac{1-x}{1-xy} )\right)=\frac{\pi^2}{2}\) - \(1-x_{i}=x_{i-1}x_{i+1}\), \(x_0=x\), \(x_2=y\)로 정의되는 점화식은 주기가 5인 수열이 된다
\(x_0=x, x_1=1-xy, x_2=y, x_3=\frac{1-y}{1-xy}, x_4=\frac{1-x}{1-xy}\)