People seemed to like my post from yesterday about infinite summations and how to rationally react to a mathematical argument you're not equipped to validate, so here's another in the same vein that highlights a different way your reasoning can go. (It's probably not quite as juicy of an example...
You may have seen that Numberphile video that circulated the social media world a few years ago. It showed the 'astounding' mathematical result: 1+2+3+4+5+… = -1/12 (quote: "the answer to this sum is, remarkably, minus a twelfth") Then they tell you that this result is used in many areas of...
I've just come back from the latest post on revitalizing LW as a conversational locus in the larger Rational-Sphere community and I'm personally still very into the idea. This post is directed at you if you're also into the idea. If you're not, that's okay; I'd still like to give...