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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2007, Article ID 94854, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2007/94854 Research Article Some New Bounds for Mathieu’s Series Abdolhossein Hoorfar and Feng Qi Received 9 February 2007; Revised 3 June 2007; Accepted 6 August 2007 Recommended by Lance L. Littlejohn Two upper and lower bounds for Mathieu’s series are established, which refine to a certain extent a sharp double inequality obtained by Alzer-Brenner-Ruehr in 1998. Moreover, the very closer lower and upper bounds for ζ (3) are deduced. Copyright © 2007 A. Hoorfar and F. Qi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction In 1890, Mathieu in [1] defined S(r) for r 0 by ∞ 2n S(r) = (1.1) 2 n=1 n2 + r2 and conjectured that S(r) 1/r 2 . We call formula (1.1) Mathieu’s series. There has been a lot of literature about the estimations of S(r) for more than 100 years till 1998, for example, [2– 14] and the references therein. In [9], Makai proved that 1 1 r2 + 1/ 2 S(r) r2 . (1.2) In 1998, Alzer et al. presented in [2] that 1 1 r2 + 1/ 2ζ (3) S(r) r2 + 1/ 6 , (1.3) where ζ denotes the zeta function and the constants 1/ 2