Except he didn't. He created a way of assigning surrogate values to forms that otherwise wouldn't have one. To quote from the Wikipedia article you linked: > a

Except he didn't. He created a way of assigning surrogate values to forms that otherwise wouldn't have one. To quote from the Wikipedia article you linked: > assigning a value to divergent infinite series Every time someone claims that series is EQUAL to -1/12, someone loses faith in math.