sum of 1/A007504(n)
Stefan Steinerberger
stefan.steinerberger at gmail.com
Tue May 15 16:26:12 CEST 2007
Hello,
how about the following argument?
Let f_n be the sum of the first n primes. Then it is easy to see that
f_n = 2 + 3 + 5 ... + p(n) > 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + (2n-1) = n^2
Now we use this argument to get an upper bound for Sum[1/f_n, {i, 10^4 + 1, oo}]
Sum[1/f_n, {i, 10^4 + 1, oo}] < Sum[1/n^2, {i, 10^4 + 1, oo}]
Now we can easily evaluate the last sum, for
Sum[1/n^2, {i, 10^4 + 1, oo}] = pi^2/6 - Sum[1/n^2, {i, 1, 10^4}]
Mathematica gives the approximate value of 0.000099995 (perhaps someone
can confirm that?). We can combine those facts to obtain
Sum[1/f_n, {i, 1, oo}] < Sum[1/f_n, {i, 1, 10^4}] + 0.000099995 ~ 1.02345802687
Since pi/6 + 1/2 is bigger than this upper bound, we can conclude that
the sum indeed does not converge against the proposed limit.
Any mistakes?
Stefan
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