Friday, 18 July 2014

summation - Transformed Sum question



I am trying to understand how this sum was transformed from




n=1nn(n+1)



to



1+n=2nn1n



I see that the index was changed from n=1 to n=2, thus requiring that the case for n=1 be added but I get 12. Not sure where the 1 comes from and how they transformed the rest of the sum.


Answer



Note that




Nn=1(nn(n+1))=Nn=1(nnnn+1)=Nn=1(nn)Nn=1(nn+1)=1+Nn=2(nn)Nn=1(nn+1)=1+Nn=2(nn)Nn=2(n1n)NN+1=1+Nn=2(nn1n)NN+1



Taking the limit as N shows that





n=1(nn(n+1))=1+n=2(nn1n)




as was to be shown!


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