Re:1 + 2 + 3 + .. = -1/12
by zombie_hitler on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:55AM
(#7057334)
You can't rearrange a divergent series. It's a sin :-P. http://www.math.ucla.edu/~ralston/pub/Rearrange.pdf
Re:1 + 2 + 3 + .. = -1/12
by ColinWright on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:52AM
(#7057322)
No, the math isn't sloppy, at least not in the way you imply.
B_n are the Bernoulli numbers - I can't find a K(whatever) on the page. If you'd let me know which bits you don't get maybe I could help.
Re:1 + 2 + 3 + .. = -1/12
by ColinWright on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @01:27PM
(#7058731)
I hope you get to see this, as I've trawled your web site and not found any way to get in touch. Based on what you've said here you're exactly the sort of person I'd like to have read through some stuff I'm writing. You only need to read as much as you're interested in, so I would hope we'd both get something out of it.
My email is in my profile if you'd like to get in touch. Obviously no obligation, so even a ping to say "no thanks" would be welcome.
Thanks.
> I made it through multivariable calculus and grads and so forth, but the computer scientist in me gets upset when I run into undefined or poorly specified notation.
Well, at the top of the 'Summation' heading it does mention Bernoulli numbers.
I made it through multivariable calculus and grads and so forth, but the computer scientist in me gets upset when I run into undefined or poorly specified notation.
"Oh," someone will reply, "You didn't know that B(i) is the Frogglegoop function for ..." and I'll say, "Nope."
I rage quit denotational semantics after failing to find definitions of the hieroglyphs in two different textbooks. If you're going to bring greek and single letter function names to the game, you could at least provide a symbol table, eh?