A circular interpretation of the Euler-Maclaurin formula

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Paul Berrut

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg/Pérolles, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The present work makes the case for viewing the Euler-Maclaurin formula as an expression for the effect of a jump on the accuracy of Riemann sums on circles and draws some consequences thereof, e.g., when the integrand has several jumps. On the way we give a construction of the Bernoulli polynomials tailored to the proof of the formula and we show how extra jumps may lead to a smaller quadrature error.