Contour Integrals

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\zeta(s)=\frac{\Gamma(1-s)}{2\pi i}\int_{-\infty}^{(0,+)}\frac{t^{s-1}}{e^{-t}-1}dt

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\zeta(s)=\frac{\Gamma(1-s)}{2\pi i(1-2^{1-s})}\int_{-\infty}^{(0,+)}\frac{t^{s-1}}{e^{-t}+1}dt

There are many examples of Formulas for the Riemann Zeta that use Contour Integration, and many of them also relate to the Gamma Function in some way.

These are not trivial and require some effort to prove, but they display a type of reasoning useful in all analytic number theory.

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