Integreek

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An $18$-year-old $1^\text{st}$ year BS-MS student at IISER Pune. I’m fascinated by math, especially integral calculus. Hence, my username is an ‘integration’ of integral and geek(and not something related to Ελληνικά).

Some of my favourite answers(in no particular order); these are the answers I gained the most insight from while working through the questions:

Some of my answers which I believe didn't get much attention because they were late to the party:

My most favourite identities:

$$\sinh^{-1}x=-i\sin^{-1}ix$$ $$\cosh^{-1}x=i\operatorname{sgn}(1-x^2)\cos^{-1}x~\forall~x\in\Bbb R$$ $$\tanh^{-1}x=-i\tan^{-1}ix$$

A few numerical identities that strike me as beautiful(the last one forms the basis for one of my questions):

$$e^{\pi i}=-1$$ $$\ln\left(\cot\frac{\pi}8\right)=\sinh^{-1}1$$ $$\ln\left(\cot\frac{\pi}{12}\right)=\cosh^{-1}2$$ $$\ln\phi=\operatorname{csch}^{-1}2$$ $$1-\frac13+\frac15-\frac17\cdots=\frac23\cdot\frac43\cdot\frac45\cdot\frac65\cdot\frac67\cdots$$ $$1+\frac{1^2}{3(3!)}+\frac{1^23^2}{5(5!)}+\frac{1^23^25^2}{7(7!)}\cdots=\frac\pi2\ln2$$