UNDERSTANDING INFINITY

                             AN EXTRAORDINARY SUM

In this blog i am gonna talk about an extraordinary sum. That sum is of natural numbers to infinity, although it is not proven scientifically but some scientists and mathematicians have found this. In mathematics, we know how to add up two numbers.  We can extend that to adding up any finite number of numbers in a very obvious way, but if we want to talk about adding up an infinite number of numbers, we can't use ordinary addition. 

We have to use higher level of  addition. This was suggested by Euclid and Ramanujan, perhaps they mean something other from the "equal to(=)" sign or "addition(+)" sign. The main problem with this theory is that how sum of positive natural numbers can be negative. They suggested that:-

= -1/12

Ramanujan once wrote a letter to his friend scientist saying that he is working on this theorem but he couldn't publish as people will think he is mad and put him in mental asylum.

So nobody knew whether it is true or not.

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