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curprev 14:1814:18, 9 June 2025 GalacticOrbits talk contribs 92,134 bytes −4 Undid revision 1294737041 by GalacticOrbits (talk) undo Tag: Undo
curprev 14:1414:14, 9 June 2025 GalacticOrbits talk contribs 92,138 bytes +4 →Motivation undo Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 23:1323:13, 28 May 2025 JackFred2 talk contribs m 92,134 bytes −4 Fix broken link undo

curprev 19:0619:06, 28 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs 92,138 bytes −972 →Weierstrass's definition: new defn of gamma constant simplifies the proof considerably undo

curprev 13:4113:41, 27 March 2025 Quantling talk contribs 93,110 bytes −51 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: circular logic: we can't multiply by that factor because it is not fully defined for non-integers until we get to the end of this paragraph undo
curprev 08:4608:46, 27 March 2025 Graham87 talk contribs m 93,161 bytes 0 5 revisions imported: import oldest edits from "Gamma function" in the August 2001 database dump undo

curprev 12:1712:17, 25 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs m 93,161 bytes −2 →Relation to other functions undo

curprev 04:4504:45, 23 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs m 93,163 bytes −5 →General: more convenient undo
curprev 02:1302:13, 23 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs m 93,168 bytes 0 →General: typo undo
curprev 01:5701:57, 23 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs 93,168 bytes −16 →General: the duplication formula proof uses this fact already undo
curprev 01:5401:54, 23 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs m 93,184 bytes −7 →General: it does undo

curprev 16:4916:49, 19 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs m 93,191 bytes +2 →Relation to other functions: typo, although the author could have mean Pi instead of Gamma undo

curprev 13:3013:30, 17 March 2025 Quantling talk contribs 93,189 bytes +19 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: Undoing in part: I think that the transition to the last expression is clearer if 1/z is out front sooner undo
curprev 09:0009:00, 17 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs m 93,170 bytes +1 →Alternative definitions undo
curprev 08:5908:59, 17 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs 93,169 bytes +36 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: made text and equation match together undo

curprev 14:5714:57, 11 March 2025 Quantling talk contribs m 93,133 bytes 0 Change "non integer" to "non-integer" undo
curprev 14:4314:43, 11 March 2025 Sapphorain talk contribs 93,133 bytes −10 Undid revision 1279947252 by Fortron37 (talk) no undo Tag: Undo
curprev 14:3614:36, 11 March 2025 Fortron37 talk contribs m 93,143 bytes +10 Corrected a mathematical error undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

curprev 13:0913:09, 1 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs m 93,133 bytes −88 →Weierstrass's definition: not helpful undo
curprev 13:0613:06, 1 March 2025 Darcourse talk contribs 93,221 bytes −91 →Weierstrass's definition: These two restraints are wrong as 1/Gamma is entire and Hadamard's factorization theorem therefore maintains entirety especially over the roots of 1/Gamma. The later one may have lost this point. undo

curprev 16:5216:52, 28 February 2025 Darcourse talk contribs 93,312 bytes −28 →Weierstrass's definition: there are two 'different' defns of Gamma here, the idea is to prove that they are the same and G_{n+1} isn't needed undo
curprev 15:0515:05, 28 February 2025 Quantling talk contribs 93,340 bytes +19 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: Mention Gamma(z) somewhere undo
curprev 14:3814:38, 28 February 2025 Darcourse talk contribs 93,321 bytes −19 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: there's no proof that (z-1)!*lim... = Gamma(z), whereas this is simple undo
curprev 14:3114:31, 28 February 2025 Darcourse talk contribs 93,340 bytes +73 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: fixed link undo

curprev 19:4819:48, 17 February 2025 Quantling talk contribs 93,267 bytes +30 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: Add wikilink for reciprocal gamma function undo
curprev 19:4519:45, 17 February 2025 Quantling talk contribs 93,237 bytes +3 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: Although it is the case, we didn't demonstrate that the assumption doesn't also lead to a distinct definition of z! (That is, we never showed that the assumption is not self-contradictory.) undo
curprev 16:0216:02, 17 February 2025 2600:4040:a05f:b200:2dd7:f044:6b5c:d725 talk 93,234 bytes +15 →Approximations: "Comparison of the gamma function", not "Comparison of gamma" undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 16:2816:28, 11 February 2025 Lunatheangel talk contribs 93,219 bytes −28 Corrected the formula for the gamma function via Stirling's formula: undo

curprev 12:1212:12, 4 February 2025 Davius talk contribs m 93,247 bytes −16 →Stirling's formula undo
curprev 12:0812:08, 4 February 2025 Davius talk contribs 93,263 bytes +53 →Stirling's formula: The previous formula is not correct because the general term tend to e = exp(1) and then the infinite product wouldn't converge undo

curprev 19:3219:32, 6 January 2025 Quantling talk contribs 93,210 bytes +7 We have space, so let's use words instead of the somewhat cryptic symbol ∀ undo

curprev 22:3322:33, 1 January 2025 78.209.235.13 talk 93,203 bytes −7 No edit summary undo

curprev 23:4823:48, 26 December 2024 Cyrobyte talk contribs 93,210 bytes −133 Reverted edits by Flash7892 (talk) (HG) (3.4.13) undo Tags: Huggle Manual revert
curprev 23:4723:47, 26 December 2024 Flash7892 talk contribs m 93,343 bytes +133 New definition on Euler's mathematical symbol found in communication. undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

curprev 08:4308:43, 25 December 2024 Moon motif talk contribs m 93,210 bytes −1 rm whitespace undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 14:3514:35, 30 October 2024 Quantling talk contribs 93,211 bytes −48 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: Too obvious to mention undo

curprev 13:3513:35, 29 October 2024 Dmt137 talk contribs m 93,259 bytes +279 →Extension to negative, non-integer values: wording undo

curprev 21:1121:11, 28 October 2024 AllCatsAreGrey talk contribs 92,980 bytes +691 Added a section about extending the Gamma function for negative, non-integer values. undo

curprev 11:2511:25, 22 October 2024 MrAnimaniac talk contribs m 92,289 bytes +54 Added the identity n+1 =(n+1)! / n!. Although this step is quite trivial, it took me an embarrassingly long time to understand it. undo

curprev 14:0514:05, 15 October 2024 Quantling talk contribs 92,235 bytes +20 →Euler's definition as an infinite product: Clarify that we don't already have the definition, we're coming up with it undo

curprev 16:5116:51, 11 October 2024 Bender235 talk contribs m 92,215 bytes +24 →See also undo
curprev 16:4616:46, 11 October 2024 Bender235 talk contribs 92,191 bytes +16 →19th–20th centuries: characterizing the gamma function undo
curprev 15:5915:59, 11 October 2024 Bender235 talk contribs 92,175 bytes +197 →Integration problems undo
curprev 15:5215:52, 11 October 2024 Bender235 talk contribs m 91,978 bytes +35 →Fourier series expansion undo

curprev 19:2519:25, 2 October 2024 85.148.95.245 talk 91,943 bytes −46 Reduce first person; do not use "whence" if you do not know what it means undo

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