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Which Euler's constant was he talking about, the one that's around 2.7182818, or the one that's around .577? It would only be really insane to be going on about the second one. Also, showing the gamma function is a continuous function that acts like factorial on the integers is pretty much just an integration by parts calculation.
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this is a late response, but the .577 one. and trust me, it WAS insane to even try it...by the end of that lecture period alone, he could see the dejection in our faces and he pointed it out, and had to give us an "inspirational" speech about doing things you never thought yourself capable of (our final in the class was no more than 2 weeks away, so we were clearly concerned).</p>