[HM] Bernoulli Numbers

Samuel S. Kutler (s-kutler@sjca.edu)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 00:05:31 +0100

Friends:

After the notorious 12th Bernoulli number -691/2730, the fourteenth
is 7/6, isn't it?

I can't find any Bernoulli numbers as such in the excerpt from Jacob
Bernoulli that is given in Struik beginning on page 316. Did Bernoulli
have a list of these numbers? If not, where do they first appear?

Where can I find, on line or in print, an extensive table of Bernoulli
numbers?

On page 109 of Conway/Guy

Book of Numbers,

there is a formula that gives a "surprising discovery" of von Staudt
& Clausen; namely, a formula for computing Bernoulli numbers that begins
with a whole number N that is 1 for 2n less than or equal to twelve.
Where can I learn what N is for higher values of 2n?

Best wishes,

Sam Kutler