On 30 January 2014 11:56, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's the concept of Cesaro 1-summability that I was dimly recalling > (page 125), but on page 126, it appears the same result is achieved by > Abel summability, which is more general. > Is Abel the person after whom "Abelian" is named? > > Getting back to the sum of the integers - the Abel sum is the zeta > function, and the analytic continuation of such is the value of -1/6 > that's been quoted. > OK... I may have to take that on higher authority. > > It's one of those funny little topics taught in second year maths > without any context, and which is almost immediately forgotten as > useless. > I assume that is the second year at university, not school. -- 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.
