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Arctangent Formulas and Pi - Grinnell College

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Arctangent Formulas and Pi

Marc Chamberland and Eugene A. Herman

Abstract.Using both geometrical and analytical approaches, new multivariable formulas con- necting the arctangent function and the numberπare produced.

1. INTRODUCTION.Since the discovery of Machin"s formula

4= 4arctan?15?

-arctan?1239? ,(1) the arctangent function has been ubiquitous in calculations ofπ. While formulas like (1) have been heavily explored [1], we seek formulas that linkπwith a linear combi- nation of arctangents of general arguments. The simplest example is the well-known equation

2= arctan(x) + arctan?1x?

(2) for allx >0. Another example, a variant of an equation due to Euler, states

2= arctan(x)-arctan(x-y) + arctan?x2-xy+ 1y?

for allxand wheny >0. The goal of this note is to develop arctangent formulas with several variables.

2. GEOMETRY OF TRIANGLES AND TETRAHEDRA.This study started

serendipidously by considering the inscribed circle in a generaltriangle: see Figure 1. The area of the triangle can be computed in two ways. By dissecting the triangle into rr r b aa c c b

Figure 1.Inscribed circle in a triangle.

three subtriangles, we find that its total areaAsatisfies A=1

2(a+c)r+12(a+b)r+12(b+c)r= (a+b+c)r,

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whereris the radius of the inscribed circle. Alternatively, applying Heron"s formula to the original triangle yields A=? abc(a+b+c).

Setting the two expressions equal produces

r=? abc a+b+c. Since the six angles surrounding the center of the inscribed circle sum to2π, this produces

π= arctan?

a? a+b+c abc? + arctan? b? a+b+c abc? (3) +arctan c? a+b+c abc? for alla,b,c >0. To generalize this geometric approach, one could consider an(n-1)-sphere in- scribed in a simplex inndimensions. The volume of the simplex can be calculated with the Cayley-Menger determinant. More challenging is the generalization of the angles around the sphere"s center, sometimes called “solid angles"; see [3, 4]. The complexity of this approach, particularly in higher dimensions, suggests an analytic approach for finding formulas similar to equation (3).

3. ARCTANGENT AND SYMMETRIC POLYNOMIALS.Some beautiful iden-

tities connect the tangent function with symmetric polynomials. Letxi= tan(θi)for i= 1,2,3,...and letek(x)denote thekth elementary symmetric polynomial in the variablesx1,x2,x3,.... The first few examples are e

0(x) = 1, e1(x) =?

ix i, e2(x) =? iThen a little-known formula [2, 5] is tan iθ i? =e1(x)-e3(x) +e5(x)- ··· e0(x)-e2(x) +e4(x)- ···.(4) If there are only finitely manyθithat are nonzero, then the right side of this identity is also finite. Examples are tan(θ1+θ2) =e1(x) e0(x)-e2(x)=x1+x21-x1x2;(5) tan(θ1+θ2+θ3) =e1(x)-e3(x) 2 c?THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA[Monthly 121

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tan(θ1+θ2+θ3+θ4) =e1(x)-e3(x)e0(x)-e2(x) +e4(x)

1-(x1x2+x1x3+x1x4+x2x3+x2x4+x3x4) +x1x2x3x4.(7)

Special choices of the angles produce formulas of the type that we seek. For ex- ample, settingθ1+θ2=π/2in equation (5) occurs exactly whenx1x2= 1. Ifx1= y

1f(y1,y2)andx2=y2f(y1,y2), thenf(y1,y2) = 1/⎷

y1y2foryi>0for alli.

This produces

2= arctan?y1⎷y1y2?

+ arctan?y2⎷y1y2? (8) = arctan y1 y2? + arctan? y2 y1?

Of course this is equivalent to equation (2).

This approach can be generalized by lettingxi=yif(y1,y2,...,yn)fori=

1,2,...,n. Setting the numerator of equation (6) equal to zero produces

π= arctan?

y 1? y1+y2+y3 y1y2y3? + arctan? y 2? y1+y2+y3 y1y2y3? +arctan y 3? y1+y2+y3 y1y2y3? ,(9) which is the same as equation (3), while setting the denominator of equation (6) equal to zero gives

2= arctan?y1⎷y1y2+y2y3+y3y1?

+ arctan?y2⎷y1y2+y2y3+y3y1? +arctan ?y3 ⎷y1y2+y2y3+y3y1? .(10) Equation (7), with its numerator equal to zero, generates

π= arctan?

y 1? y1+y2+y3+y4 y1y2y3+y1y2y4+y1y3y4+y2y3y4? +arctan y 2? y1+y2+y3+y4 y1y2y3+y1y2y4+y1y3y4+y2y3y4? +arctan y 3? y1+y2+y3+y4 y1y2y3+y1y2y4+y1y3y4+y2y3y4? +arctan y 4? y1+y2+y3+y4 y1y2y3+y1y2y4+y1y3y4+y2y3y4? .(11)

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It is natural to wonder whether there are other “simple" choices offthat produce equations of the form C= arctan(y1f(y1,y2,...,yn)) + arctan(y2f(y1,y2,...,yn)) +···+ arctan(ynf(y1,y2,...,yn))(12) for some constantCand ally1,y2,...,yn>0. Theorem 1.The only equations of the form (12) satisfied by a nonzero functionf=? p q, wherepandqare polynomials, are the equations (8)-(11). Proof.Lettingxi=yif(y1,y2,...,yn), use equations (4) and (12) to write D:= tan(C) = tan(arctan(x1) +···+ arctan(xn))quotesdbs_dbs7.pdfusesText_5