Bourbaki

Exercise 5, § 2

Functions of a Real Variable, III, 126

Bourbaki marks this one as harder than the rest.

Show that π\pi is irrational, in the following way: if one had π=p/q\pi = p/q (pp and qq integers), then on putting f(x)=(x(π−x))n/n!f(x) = (x(\pi - x))^n / n!, the integral qn∫0πf(x)sin⁡x dxq^n \int_0^\pi f(x) \sin x \, dx would be an integer >0> 0 (use the formula for integration by parts of order n+1n + 1); but show that on the other hand qn∫0πf(x)sin⁡x dxq^n \int_0^\pi f(x) \sin x \, dx tends to 0 as nn tends to +∞+\infty.

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