Preface

On behalf of the International Advisory Board and the Local Organizing Committee of The International Congress in Honour of Professor Hari M. Srivastava, which was held in the Auditorium at the Campus of Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey on August 23-26, 2012, and on our own behalves, we would like to express our happiness and gratitude to all participants who attended and actively participated in our Congress. This article is being published in each of the four Special Issues of the SpringerOpen journals, Advances in Difference Equations, Boundary Value Problems, Fixed Point Theory and Applications and Journal of Inequalities and Applications, which are entitled 'Proceedings of the International Congress in Honour of Professor Hari M. Srivastava'

Extensions of Euler harmonic sums

Three new closed-form summation formulae involving harmonic numbers are established using simple arguments and they are very general extensions of Euler’s famous harmonic sum identity. Some illustrative special cases as well as immediate consequences of the main results are also considered