Definition:Millin Series/Historical Note

Historical Note on Millin Series
The series which is now known as the Millin series appeared as a puzzle problem in in $1974$ under the byline, identified as a high school student in Pennsylvania, US.

Millin was in fact a misprint for, under which name the solution was published.

An outline by of a solution appeared in the following issue.

A full solution by was published two years later in, and in that issue, 's name was reported correctly as.

The identity was published on the Mathworld website under the name Millin series, from which it has since been further propagated.