Double inequalities on means via quadrature formula

K. M. Nagaraja and P. Siva Kota Reddy
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, ISSN 1310–5132
Volume 18, 2012, Number 1, Pages 22–28
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K. M. Nagaraja
Department of Mathematics, Sri Krishna Institute of Technology
Bangalore-560 090, India

P. Siva Kota Reddy
Department of Mathematics, Acharya Institute of Technology
Bangalore-560 090, India

Abstract

In this paper, using Simpson’s quadrature formula and Jensen inequality for convex function, we obtained some double inequalities among various means.

Keywords

• Inequality
• Simpson’s rule
• Convex function
• Jensen inequality

AMS Classification

• 25D15

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