Mike Spivey

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bio	website	math.pugetsound.edu/~mspivey
	location	Tacoma, WA
	age	40
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I am a math professor at the University of Puget Sound. My background is in operations research, and I teach typical OR courses such as optimization, modeling, and probability, as well as calculus, statistics, and differential equations.

My math blog, A Narrow Margin, includes (among other things) discussion of some of my favorite posts - of mine and of others - from math.SE.

	25,845 reputation	bio	website	math.pugetsound.edu/~mspivey	visits	member for	2 years, 7 months
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+5	05:54	upvote	Nice proofs of $\zeta(4) = \pi^4/90$?
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+15	23:43	3 events	Ways to evaluate $\int \sec \theta \, d \theta$
+10	19:13	upvote	Conditions for no duality gap in quadratic programming?
	07:03	upvote	Different methods to compute $\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^2}$

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Proving an alternating Euler sum: $\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^{k+1} H_k}{k} = \frac{1}{2} \zeta(2) - \frac{1}{2} \log^2 2$

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