I have stumbled across something beautiful! I haven’t the time to write of it now, but I can allude to it without fear. Eventually, I will reproduce a very fascinating formula for $latex \pi$.
But first:
Consider the following expression:
$latex \cos \dfrac{\xi}{2} \cos \dfrac{\xi}{4} \cos \dfrac{\xi}{8} … \cos \dfrac{\xi}{2^n}$
It can be simplified into a very simple quotient of $latex sin$ in terms of $latex \xi$.
October 17, 2019 at 3:17 pm on Notes from a talk at the Maine-Quebec Number Theory ConferenceThanks Peter! You're right --- and it's a nice reference. 
October 7, 2019 at 4:03 am on Notes from a talk at the Maine-Quebec Number Theory ConferenceOmega results of this form using this method are presented quite nicely in Chapter 15 of Montgomery and Vaughan; they give applications towards sign changes of the Chebyshev psi function and of partial sums of the Mobius function. 
June 16, 2019 at 1:55 am on Choosing functions and generating figures for “When are there continuous choices for the mean value abscissa?”At first, we chose 2 because it was the other "obvious" point that we hadn't yet specified. We already controlled the values at 0, 1, and 3. But I later realized it doesn't matter what point we choose. What we're really doing is adding one extra degree of freedom and using it to minimize the L2 norm of the derivative ---
June 16, 2019 at 1:14 am on Choosing functions and generating figures for “When are there continuous choices for the mean value abscissa?”Why did you choose 2 for the pt in the L2 part? What if you chose 1.5 or something? 
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September 23, 2018 at 9:50 am on An intuitive introduction to calculusGreat post! Thank you for taking the time to write this. Regarding the example on population growth, you state that if P'(t) = k*P(t), then P(t) = ae^(kt). But wouldn't a more general expression be: P(t) = ae^(kt+C1), where C1 is a constant? June 9, 2018 at 7:31 am on Math 420: First Week Homework and ReferencesYes, you're right. Thank you for pointing that out. I've now edited it.
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