In the English translation of The Gamma Function by Emil Artin (1964 - Holt, Rinehart and Winston) there appears to be a mistake in the formula given for the gamma function on page 24:
Gamma(x)=sqrt2pixx−1/2e−x+mu(x)
mu(x)=sumin=0nfty(x+n+frac12)textlog(1+frac1x+n)−1=fractheta12x,0<theta<1
and on page 22 where this is derived, it is noted that 'theta is a number independent of x between 0 and 1'.
This sounds incorrect, as theta does depend on x, but since the wording is a little ambiguous it may just be an unclear translation. The original German might have meant that 0<theta(x)<1 for any x. That the variable x is suppressed from theta could be just confusing notation, or someone's misunderstanding (possibly mine.)
The preface does mention that a (different) formula had to be corrected for the English reprint.
I would like to know if there are mistakes in this book, and if so, whether they exist in the German edition. Is there an available list of errata?
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