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Does -1/12 Protect Us From Infinity?

Does -1/12 Protect Us From Infinity?

Ten years later... Professor Tony Padilla returns to the thorny issue of summing the integers arriving at -1/12.

Also newly uploaded today about -1/12: https://youtu.be/FmLIGN8ZGdw

-1/12 shield sticker and t-shirts: https://numberphile.creator-spring.com/listing/1-12-shield-numberphile

Here's the new paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10981

Here are our -1/12 videos, including the one that started it all: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWK2zCU-4X1iuuu5m8hf6L1B

Here's a blog Tony wrote about the original -1/12 videos: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzap4/response.html

And here's a blog Brady directs people to when they message about the matter: https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/2015/1/11/this-blog-probably-wont-help

Interview with Terry Tao: https://youtu.be/MXJ-zpJeY3E

The Mystery of Hyperbolicity

The Mystery of Hyperbolicity

The Return of -1/12

The Return of -1/12