Original Article
Kyungpook Mathematical Journal 2002; 42(2): 399-416
Published online June 23, 2002
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Some Generalizations of Beukers’ Integrals
Petros Hadjicostas
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Box 41042, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1042, U.S.A.
Beukers [3] used some double integrals to give an elegant proof to Apéry's result, which states that $zeta(3)$ is irrational. In this paper, based on his methods, we generalize Beukers' integrals (although we do not prove the irrationality of $zeta(2n+1)$ for positive integer $n$). The evaluation of these integrals is achieved by using an
expansion of an infinite geometric series and differentiating under the integral sign.
Keywords: Beukers&rsquo, integers, irrationality of numbers, Riemann zeta function