Is this some kind of joke?
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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12
William Gomez
Charles Young
James Watson
No, it's improper/misleading notation and poorly explained methodology. Note how the professors are both physicists, not mathematicians. I really don't know why Brady didn't just get an analyst to talk about/explain the [math]\zeta[/math] function.
Julian Wood
No. It is the ultimate math redpill. -1/12 is of greater significance than pi or even e, since the quantum infrastructure that the infrastructure in which those exist would not be possible without 1+2+3+4...being equal to -1/12.
Christopher Gray
>tfw too poor to afford real paper so you have to do all your math on a grocery bag.
Robert Howard
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Isaac Ortiz
Yes. This is easily their shittiest video.
Austin Perez
Obviously the sum of all natural numbers for the simple meaning of sum will be infinite. However, let's say you're in a case where you have some mathematical description of a problem where one term is a finite number, and you apply some generic manipulations to the whole problem, and suddenly that finite number turned into a divergent series. With the regularized zeta function (or other methods of proving the same result) you can just replace that divergent sum with a finite number and it just werks.
Jaxon Morales
Purest bullshit
>pseudoscience use of quantum mechs.
>in math
Hunter Clark
I didn't find an error in his proof.
Dylan Hernandez
Zeta(-1) is not equal to 1+2+3+4...
The sum formula for zeta only holds for >1 reals. On other number, zeta function has no such notation.
Gavin Murphy
What is that pic supposed to be? The parabola that goes through those points is x^2/2
Josiah Ramirez
Jordan Brooks
What is a smoothed asymptote?
Liam Reyes
Read the source linked from the caption for that figure.
Owen Howard
He doesn't define a smoothed asymptote, he has a section called smoothed asymptotics but I can't see how this would ever produce the parabola in question.
Chase Williams
You solved it, it's a scam to fool the internet.
Your Nobel prize will come in tomorrow's mail.
Christian Hall
There are no Nobel prizes in math, but again, the polynomial that goes through the middle of each box is x^2/2 with y-intercept 0, and a construction of another polynomial with another intercept has not been presented. Furthermore, if the polynomial goes through the middle of the box it must be x^2/2, because that's the only polynomial that does that.
Wyatt Collins
Let [math]N \,\in\, \mathbf N[/math].
[eqn]\sum_{n \,=\, 0}^N n \,=\, \frac{N\,\left( N \,+\, 1 \right)}{2} \,\xrightarrow[N \,\rightarrow\, \infty]{}\, \infty[/eqn]
Therefore [math]\sum_{n \,=\, 0}^\infty n \,=\, \infty[/math].
How hard is it, popsci retards?
Easton Johnson
Logan Edwards
why are their papers always big brown sheets of paper
Joshua Gray
recycled toilet paper
because all that they write on it is shit
Dominic Martin
It might be a math joke, but it's not a physics joke (read about the Casimir effect in QED).
Xavier Robinson
Post yfw it converges to -1/12
Brainlets btfo
Adam Wilson
As N approaches infinity, the sum approaches infinity, but when N is *Exactly* infinity, the sum is -1/12
:^)