How to get sine term in Analytical continuation of $\zeta(s)$

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I am able to prove the symmetric functional equation that Riemann gives in his paper, using Poisson Summation and properties of $\theta(x)$.

The functional equation is given like so,

\begin{equation} \pi^{-\frac{s}{2}} \Gamma(\frac{s}{2})\zeta(s) = \pi^{-\frac{1-s}{2}}\Gamma(\frac{1-s}{2}) \zeta(1-s) \end{equation}

Now to get $\zeta(s)$ on its own do I just divide the right hand side by $\pi^{-\frac{s}{2}} \Gamma(\frac{s}{2})$? How do I manipulate that expression to use the result from the product formula for sine? Or better still is there a more efficient way to show the trivial zeroes at the negative even integers?

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If you want the sine term you have to make some standard manipulations of the Gamma function. We have $$\zeta\left(s\right)=\pi^{s-1/2}\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{s}{2}\right)}{\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)}\zeta\left(1-s\right) $$ then by the duplication formula of Gamma and the Euler's reflection, we get $$\zeta\left(s\right)=\pi^{s-1/2}\frac{\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}-\frac{s}{2}\right)}{\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)}\zeta\left(1-s\right)=\pi^{s}2^{s}\frac{\Gamma\left(1-s\right)}{\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)\Gamma\left(1-\frac{s}{2}\right)}\zeta\left(1-s\right)=\pi^{s-1}2^{s}\sin\left(\pi s/2\right)\Gamma\left(1-s\right)\zeta\left(1-s\right). $$