Golden Nugget!!!

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -\frac{1}{12}

My brother shared this interesting video with me a few days back when he was at the screening for The Man Who Knew Infinity. I’m looking forward to watching this movie too!

Back to the video! It focuses on the sum that is written above. And interestingly, this sum that should not be defined (as what JC students learnt in Arithmetic Progression), is actually a NEGATIVE number. Explain excellently by professor Edward Frenkel. He brings in interesting concepts from complex numbers too. Hopefully, this piques some interest!

Professor Edward Frenkel wrote a book “Love & Math”, which is really intriguing. You don’t have to love math to read it but you will after reading 🙂

You can read more here too.

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