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This book is ridiculous!! There are a lot of cool tricks applied in such a way that I could only see them applied once (like once for all of humanity). Then, for all others, they might look it up in a table. However, I can say that seeing some of the mathematical acrobatics that Nahin goes through to derive some truly remarkable results really pushes my inner math nerd to give these integrals a try.

Gamma and Beta functions. Euler's reflection formula for the gamma function plays an important role in the unsolved Riemann hypothesis. He will treat Riemann function, its analytic continuation and the relation to prime numbera later in the book!

So far, excellent. I think this book is going to refresh my knowledge of integration and teach me a lot. The first chapter is full of wonderful integrals solved with incredibly clever ideas.

Curiosity: mathematician G. H. Hardy loved definite integrals. He couldn't resist to try an interesting integral when he saw one.