Simultaneous Padé approximants to the Euler, exponential and logarithmic functions
Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Tome 27 (2015) no. 2, pp. 565-589.

Nous présentons une méthode générale qui permet d’obtenir des approximations simultanées de type Padé pour les fonctions exponentielles et logarithmes.

We present a general method to obtain simultaneous explicit Padé type approximations to the exponential and logarithmic functions.

DOI : 10.5802/jtnb.914
Classification : 33C45, 41A21, 33C20, 11J72
Mots clés : Padé approximants, Orthogonal polynomials, Hypergeometric series
Tanguy Rivoal 1

1 Institut Fourier CNRS et Université Grenoble 1 100 rue des maths, BP 74 38402 St Martin d’Hères cedex, France
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Tanguy Rivoal. Simultaneous Padé approximants to the Euler, exponential and logarithmic functions. Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Tome 27 (2015) no. 2, pp. 565-589. doi : 10.5802/jtnb.914. https://jtnb.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/jtnb.914/

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