a Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0112, USA b Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4605, USA
Abstract:
A formula for the sum of any positive-integral power of the first N positive integers was published by Johann Faulhaber in the 1600s. In this paper, we generalize Faulhaber's formula to non-integral complex powers with real part greater than −1.