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.