Stirling formula

  • development by Stirling

    TITLE: James Stirling (British mathematician)
    ...Method with a Tract on Summation and Interpolation of Infinite Series”), a treatise on infinite series, summation, interpolation, and quadrature. It contains the statement of what is known as Stirling’s formula,n! ≅ (n/e)nn,although the French...
  • work of Moivre

    TITLE: Abraham de Moivre
    He originated Stirling’s formula, incorrectly attributed to James Stirling (1692–1770) of England, which states that for a large number n, n! equals approximately (2πn)1/2e-nnn; that is, n factorial (a product of integers with values descending from n...