A nice but easy proof!

We basically have to prove that,$\sum_{n=2}^{n}\dfrac{1}{n^2}<1$ $\text{Motivation of proof}:$,the first idea that struck me was the use of telescoping series,if i could write,$\dfrac{1}{n^2}<\text{something}$ and write,$\dfrac{1}{(n-1)^2}<\text{another something}$,and when we add the terms of $L.H.S$ we would get the required expression and when we add the terms of the $R.H.S$ we would get a telescoping series.The next thing that came to my mind was that,$n^2>(n)(n-1)$(we have taken the greater than sign as then when we take the reciprocal the sign would get reversed),since $\dfrac{1}{(n)(n-1)}=\dfrac{1}{n-1}-\dfrac{1}{n}$,and we would get a telescoping series like this, $\dfrac{1}{2^2}<\dfrac{1}{1}-\dfrac{1}{2}\\ \dfrac{1}{3^2}<\dfrac{1}{2}-\dfrac{1}{3}\\ .\\ .\\ .\\ \dfrac{1}{n^2}<\dfrac{1}{n-1}-\dfrac{1}{n}\\ \text{adding,we get}:\\ \sum_{n=2}^{n}\dfrac{1}{n^2}<1-\dfrac{1}{n}<1$.Hence proved.And done!

from the basel problem we get $\sum_{n=1}^\infty (\frac{1}{n^2}) = \frac{\pi^2}{6}<2$. although this is probably not intended, but still works as a good proof. we prove the basel proble:$$ Euler's original derivation of the value $\frac{π^2}{6}$ essentially extended observations about finite polynomials and assumed that these same properties hold true for infinite series.

recall the Taylor series expansion of the sine function

$\sin(x) = x - \frac{x^3}{3!} + \frac{x^5}{5!} - \frac{x^7}{7!} + \cdots.$ Dividing through by x, we have

$\frac{\sin(x)}{x} = 1 - \frac{x^2}{3!} + \frac{x^4}{5!} - \frac{x^6}{7!} + \cdots.$ Using the Weierstrass factorization theorem, it can also be shown that the left-hand side is the product of linear factors given by its roots, just as we do for finite polynomials

$\begin{aligned} \frac{\sin(x)}{x} &= \left(1 - \frac{x}{\pi}\right)\left(1 + \frac{x}{\pi}\right)\left(1 - \frac{x}{2\pi}\right)\left(1 + \frac{x}{2\pi}\right)\left(1 - \frac{x}{3\pi}\right)\left(1 + \frac{x}{3\pi}\right) \cdots \\ &= \left(1 - \frac{x^2}{\pi^2}\right)\left(1 - \frac{x^2}{4\pi^2}\right)\left(1 - \frac{x^2}{9\pi^2}\right) \cdots. \end{aligned}$ If we formally multiply out this product and collect all the x2 terms (we are allowed to do so because of Newton's identities), we see that the x2 coefficient of sin(x)/x is

$-\left(\frac{1}{\pi^2} + \frac{1}{4\pi^2} + \frac{1}{9\pi^2} + \cdots \right) = -\frac{1}{\pi^2}\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^2}.$ But from the original infinite series expansion of sin(x)/x, the coefficient of x2 is −1/(3!) = −1/6. These two coefficients must be equal; thus,

$-\frac{1}{6} = -\frac{1}{\pi^2}\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^2}.$ Multiplying through both sides of this equation by $-\pi^2$ gives the sum of the reciprocals of the positive square integers.

$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}.$

Isn't this reimann zeta(2)? Then the value will be 1.64 only.