Useful Inequalities

Posted by Beetle B. on Sun 20 April 2014
\begin{equation*} \sum_{k=2}^{n}\frac{1}{k}\le\ln n \end{equation*}

To see this, look at the curve \(1/x\), and integrate it from 1 to \(n\). This will give you the area under the curve, but the “approximation” to the curve will be given by the sum:

Plot of 1/x
\begin{equation*} 1+x\le e^{x} \end{equation*}

tags : inequalities