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'''Giovanni Enrico Eugenio Vacca''' (18 November 1872 – 6 January 1953) was an [[Italian language|Italian]] [[mathematician]], [[Sinologist]] and historian of science.  
 
Vacca studied mathematics and graduated from the [[University of Genoa]] in 1897 under the guidance of G. B. Negri. He was a politically active student and was banished for that from Genoa in 1897. He moved to [[Turin]] and became an assistant to [[Giuseppe Peano]]. In 1899 he studied, at [[Hanover]], unpublished manuscripts of [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]], which he published in 1903. Around 1898 Vacca became interested in Chinese language and culture after attending a Chinese exhibition in [[Turin]]. He took private lessons of Chinese and continued to study it at the [[University of Florence]]. Vacca then traveled to China in 1907–8 and defended a PhD in Chinese studies in 1910. In 1911, he became a lecturer in Chinese literature at the [[Sapienza University of Rome|University of Rome]]. In 1922, he moved to Florence and taught Chinese literature and language at university until 1947. <ref>{{MacTutor Biography|id=Vacca}}</ref>
 
The interests of Vacca were almost equally split between mathematics, Sinology and history of science, with a corresponding number of papers being 38, 47 and 45. In 1910, Vacca developed a [[complex number]] iteration for [[pi]]:<ref>G. Vacca. ''A new analytical expression for the number π and some historical considerations'', Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Ser. 2), 1910, vol.16, pp. 368–369</ref>
:<math>x_0 = i,\quad x_{n+1} = \frac{x_n + |x_n|}2,\qquad\lim_{n\to\infty} x_n = \frac2\pi.</math>
 
The calculation efficiency of these formulas is significantly worse than of the modern [[Borwein's algorithm]] – they converge by only about half a decimal point with each iteration.
 
Vacca published his two major contributions to mathematics in 1910 and 1926, on [[series expansion]] (later named Vacca series) of the [[Euler constant]]. They are, respectively
:<math>
\begin{align}
\gamma &= \sum_{k=2}^\infty (-1)^k \frac{ \left \lfloor \log_2 k \right \rfloor}{k}
  = \tfrac12-\tfrac13
  + 2\left(\tfrac14 - \tfrac15 + \tfrac16 - \tfrac17\right)
  + 3\left(\tfrac18 - \cdots - \tfrac1{15}\right) + \cdots\\
\zeta(2) + \gamma  &= \sum_{k=2}^\infty\left(\frac1{\lfloor \sqrt{k} \rfloor^2} - \frac1{k}\right)
  = \sum_{k=2}^{\infty} \frac{k - \lfloor\sqrt{k}\rfloor^2}{k\lfloor\sqrt{k}\rfloor^2}
  = \tfrac12 + \tfrac23 + \tfrac1{2^2}\left(\tfrac15 + \tfrac26 + \tfrac37 + \tfrac48\right)
                        + \tfrac1{3^2}\left(\tfrac1{10} + \cdots + \tfrac6{15}\right) + \cdots
\end{align}
</math><BR>
Vacca noted in 1910 that:<ref>{{cite book|author1=[[James Joseph Sylvester]]|author2=[[James Whitbread Lee Glaisher]]|title=The Quarterly journal of pure and applied mathematics|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Q4qXAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=16 August 2011|year=1910|publisher=J.W. Parker|page=364}}</ref>
:''There is some hope that this series can be of some use in the proof of the irrationality of <math>\gamma</math>, a very difficult problem, proposed, but not resolved, in the Correspondence, recently published, between [[Charles Hermite|Hermite]] und [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes|Stieltjes]].''
 
==References==
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| DATE OF DEATH    = 6 January 1953
| PLACE OF DEATH    = [[Rome]], Italy
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