Symbolic Evaluations Inspired by Ramanujan's Series for 1/pi
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We introduce classes of Ramanujan-like series for
We present a generalization of the recently discovered harmonic summation formula $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \binom{2n}{n}^{2} \frac{H_{n}}{32^{n}} = \frac{\Gamma^{2} \left( \frac{1}{4} \right)}{4 \sqrt{\pi}} \left( 1 - \frac{4 \ln(2)}{\pi} \right) $$ through creative applications of an integration method that we had previously introduced. We provide explicit closed-form expressions for natural variants of the above series. At the time of our research being conducted, up-to-date versions of Computer Algebra Systems such as Mathematica and Maple could not evaluate our introduced series, such as $$ \sum _{n=1}^{\infty } \frac{ \binom{2 n}{n}^2 H_n}{32^n (n + 1)} = 8-\frac{2 \Gamma^2 \left(\frac{1} {4}\right)}{\pi ^{3/2}}-\frac{4 \pi ^{3/2}+16 \sqrt{\pi } \ln (2)}{\Gamma^2 \left(\frac{1}{4}\right)}. $$ We also introduce a class of harmonic summations for Catalan's constant
We also present a new integration method for evaluating infinite series involving alternating harmonic numbers, and we apply a Fourier--Legendre-based technique recently introduced by Campbell et al., to prove new rational double hypergeometric series formulas for expressions involving