This article generalizes the famous Wallis’s formula
for k ≥ 0 , to an integral over the unit sphere S
n-1. An application to the integral of polynomials over S
n-1 is discussed.
Willis Formula Unit SphereCite this paper
Namazi, J. (2018) A Generalized Wallis Formula. Applied Mathematics, 9, 207-209. https://doi.org/10.4236/am.2018.93015
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