A continued fraction expansion for a -tangent function.
In this paper, we establish several explicit evaluations, reciprocity theorems and integral representations for a continued fraction of order twelve which are analogues to Rogers-Ramanujan’s continued fraction and Ramanujan’s cubic continued fraction.
350 years ago in Spring of 1655 Sir William Brouncker on a request by John Wallis obtained a beautiful continued fraction for 4/π. Brouncker never published his proof. Many sources on the history of Mathematics claim that this proof was lost forever. In this paper we recover the original proof from Wallis' remarks presented in his Arithmetica Infinitorum. We show that Brouncker's and Wallis' formulas can be extended to MacLaurin's sinusoidal spirals via related Euler's products. We derive Ramanujan's...