Harmonic numbers and sums

Calculus Level 5

n = 1 ( H n n ) 2 \displaystyle \sum _{ n=1 }^{ \infty }{ { \left(\frac { { H }_{ n } }{ n } \right) }^{ 2 } }

If the above summation can be stated in the form A π B C \dfrac { A{ \pi }^{ B } }{ C } for positive integers A , B , C A,B,C with gcd ( A , C ) = 1 \text{gcd}(A,C) = 1 .

What is the value of A + B + C A+B+C ?

Details and Assumptions

H n H_n is the n th n^\text{th} Harmonic number, H n = r = 1 n 1 r \displaystyle {H}_{n} = \sum _{ r=1 }^{ n }{ \frac { 1 }{ r } }


The answer is 381.

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1 solution

Pratik Shastri
Mar 7, 2015

This is a simple looking but nasty summation. It has been discussed before on math stackexchange and other math sites. Here is my favorite solution (and frankly the only one I understand completely).

Hmm , so you too visit MSE regularly ? Will you create an account there and on PSE in the near future ?

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 3 months ago

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I already have an account on MSE. Wbu?

Pratik Shastri - 6 years, 3 months ago

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I don't have one right now, but I'll create on Monday . How abt PSE ?

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 3 months ago

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@A Former Brilliant Member I have accounts on 15 SE sites, including PSE.

Pratik Shastri - 6 years, 3 months ago

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@Pratik Shastri Nice , I also wanted to confirm it before joining it . Since you gave it , I think I'll go for it too :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 3 months ago

The reason that I asked was I couldn't find you there

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 3 months ago

@Pratik Shastri why you deleted your problem Another Harmonic Sum.

Ronak Agarwal - 6 years, 3 months ago

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I'll re-upload it soon.

Pratik Shastri - 6 years, 3 months ago

I had the same idea as the solution writer in MSE but had no tools to integrate all that stuff so I had to cheat.

Kartik Sharma - 6 years, 3 months ago

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