OFFSET
2,2
COMMENTS
Surface area of the 4-dimensional unit sphere. The volume of the 4-dimensional unit sphere is a fourth of this, A102753.
Also decimal expansion of Pi^2/5 = 1.973920..., with offset 1. - Omar E. Pol, Oct 04 2011
REFERENCES
L. A. Santalo, Integral Geometry and Geometric Probability, Addison-Wesley, 1976, see p. 15.
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..5000
Yann Bernard, Autour des surfaces de Willmore, Images des Mathématiques, CNRS, 2014 (in French).
Fernando C. Marques and André Neves, Min-Max theory and the Willmore conjecture, arXiv:1202.6036 [math.DG], 2012-2013.
H.-J. Seiffert, Problem B-705, Elementary Problems and Solutions, The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4 (1991), p. 372; An Application of a Series Expansion for (arcsinx)^2, Solution to Problem B-705, ibid., Vol. 31, No. 1 (1993), pp. 85-86.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Hypersphere.
Wikipedia, Hypersphere.
Wikipedia, Willmore conjecture.
FORMULA
Pi^2/5 = Sum_{k>=1} Lucas(2*k)/(k^2*binomial(2*k,k)) = Sum_{k>=1} A005248(k)/A002736(k) (Seiffert, 1991). - Amiram Eldar, Jan 17 2022
EXAMPLE
19.739208802178717237668981...
MATHEMATICA
RealDigits[2*Pi^2, 10, 120][[1]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 19 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) 2*Pi^2 \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 24 2014
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
AUTHOR
R. J. Mathar, Aug 10 2009
STATUS
approved