1 + 2 + 3 + … = −1/12

The Endeavour 2025-02-13

Summary:

The other day MathMatize posted roses are red books go on a shelf 1+2+3+4+ … with a photo of Ramanujan on X. This was an allusion to the bizarre equation 1 + 2 + 3 + … = − 1/12. This comes up often enough that I wanted to write a post that I could […]

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John

Date tagged:

02/13/2025, 15:15

Date published:

02/13/2025, 10:52