Summing up the naturals gives infinity, but you can analytically continue the Riemann zeta function to -1 and get -1/12. Here's the story about bosonic string theory: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/numbers/24.pdf On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Guy Haworth <g.haworth@reading.ac.uk> wrote:
For some reason, this maths-chat turned up on the Chessbase site ... http://en.chessbase.com/post/a-math-break
Someone, please tell me that some formula is being used outside its 'zone of convergence' ... and that 'String Theory' is not using dodgy arithmetic.
Thanks in advance,
Guy
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