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ASTOUNDING: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12

Numberphile · 9,684,430 조회수 · 추가됨 2주 전

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I'm gonna give you an astounding result

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Astounding?

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An astounding result

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So I'm just gonna write down a little sum

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I'm just gonna see what answer it gives.

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1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + duh duh duh duh duh

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And I include all the natural numbers, so all the way up to infinity

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So what do you reckon the answer to this is, Brady?

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-Well I would say it would go to tend towards infinity.

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Yeah, that makes sense, doesn't it.

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The answer to this sum is -- remarkably -- minus a twelfth.

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It's amazing! I mean, I first saw this result when I start learning a bit of String Theory

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And what's even more bizarre is that this result is used in many areas of physics

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This is a very well known string theory textbook by Joe Polchinski. As you can see,

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sort of quite early on, page 22, we have this statement here which is that the sum of

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all this is --- basically saying the sum of all the integers ---

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all natural numbers all the way up to infinity, is, minus a twelfth.

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Alright so we're going to prove now,

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Without getting our knickers in a twist with Riemann zeta functions, we gonna prove

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in quite simple way, why the sum of all the natural numbers is indeed minus a twelfth.

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So, to do that we're gonna do this in a number of steps.

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We're gonna to look at a few different sums.

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The first sum that I want to look at, I'm gonna call it S1.

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And it's 1 -1 +1 -1 +1 -1 and so on.

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That's the first sum I wanna look at in principle.

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The second sum I'm gonna look at is 1-2+3-4 and so on

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Carry on in that process all the way up.

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And the third one is of course going to be

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