mathandpoop

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   by mathandpoop 7y ago

   You seem to have put quite an extensive amount of biographical research into this. I have never seen these photos in this high quality on the internet before. As a maths person and a bit of a Grothendieck fan, thanks!
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   by mathandpoop 7y ago

   "New mathematics" is a bit of an overstatement. There is a lot more to maths than continued fractions. It bugs me a bit that the authors write (I would love for anyone affiliated with the project to talk to me about this) "An
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   by mathandpoop 7y ago

   It's a theorem of analytic number theory. It's just a special value of the ζ-function. People misunderstand how analytic continuation works and therefore (wrongly) interpret ζ(-1) as the divergent series 1+2+3+... (The correct int