Ramanujan: Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and Co.

MathologerLength: 34 minutesRecreational & visual math

In brief

Mathologer examines how identities like 1+2+3+... = -1/12 arise in Ramanujan's work, starting from his 1913 letter to Hardy. The video explains the rules for summing infinite series and why such results are meaningful but not naive sums.