Amazing. That means that there are much left to discover in math.
And also note that: 1/12 = 2/24 and 24= flip 42 for some well known flip : N -> N ;) 2014/1/18, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>: > Alberto, > > What is amusing is that Ramanujan said this (that 1+2+3+... = -1/12) > in a letter to find a job in England, just to illustrate that he was > not bad in computing. He was of course considered as crackpot until > the letter was given to Hardy, who recognized immediately the genius. > Another amazing thing is that in string theory, the computation of > the mass of the photon leads to the expression 1/12 + > (1+2+3+4+5+ ...). the physicists thought "shit, again an infinity", > but were comforted by the number theorists, that on the complex > numbers, this gives "somehow" the needed -1/12. > > Number theory is full of that kind of very surprising facts. of course > the limit is not the usual limit of a series. We don't get that > "infinity" = -1/12. > > Bruno > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
