Let sin(x) be some polynomial which may be factored as
Since
which is never zero when x and y
are real and y is not zero, and since
the only factors of sin(x) are
those of the form
Furthermore, since at each of the
points The derrivative of sin(x) is equal to plus or minus one, so we may conclude that each
of these factors appears exactly once. In addition to this we know that appart
from x=0, each factor has a corresponding factor of the form
so that the two
may be combined in the form
We may conclude that we may write
sin(x) as
From the product rule for derrivatives it can be shown that
The only other necessary constraint is that the limit of their
product exists. These two constraints are satisfied when
We may then write
or
alternately, by using instead of x,
Because we know
that
we can say that
and that is how one may arrive at
this particular infinite product for pi. I should note that it doesn't converge
very fast. In fact, it converges as slowly as any inverse-square infinite sum
for pi. It required, I believe, about ninety-thousand factors to get eight
decimal places.