Wallis Product

is the infinite product representation

It was published in 1656 by John Wallis.

The Wallis product is the infinite product representation of π: π 2 = ∏ n = 1 ∞ 4 n 2 4 n 2 − 1 = ∏ n = 1 ∞ ( 2 n 2 n − 1 ⋅ 2 n 2 n + 1 ) = ( 2 1 ⋅ 2 3 ) ⋅ ( 4 3 ⋅ 4 5 ) ⋅ ( 6 5 ⋅ 6 7 ) ⋅ ( 8 7 ⋅ 8 9 ) ⋅ ⋯ {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\frac {\pi }{2}}&=\prod _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {4n^{2}}{4n^{2}-1}}=\prod _{n=1}^{\infty }\left({\frac {2n}{2n-1}}\cdot {\frac {2n}{2n+1}}\right)\\[6pt]&={\Big (}{\frac {2}{1}}\cdot {\frac {2}{3}}{\Big )}\cdot {\Big (}{\frac {4}{3}}\cdot {\frac {4}{5}}{\Big )}\cdot {\Big (}{\frac {6}{5}}\cdot {\frac {6}{7}}{\Big )}\cdot {\Big (}{\frac {8}{7}}\cdot {\frac {8}{9}}{\Big )}\cdot \;\cdots \\\end{aligned}}} It was published in 1656 by John Wallis.