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Is Ramanujan summation just a meme?

Anonymous Sun 24 Jan 22:19:23 2021 No.12623944 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12623975 >>12624366

What is it useful for?

El Arcón

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El Arcón Sun 24 Jan 2021 22:24:51 No.12623961 Report

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It's useful for computing the Casimir force.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Jan 2021 22:28:30 No.12623975 Report

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>>12623944
It is a meme. Analytic continuation does everything Ramanujan summation does and more. There's a reason it never caught on, while analytic continuation was widely used, the latter is more generalizeable and useful in the vast majority of situations.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 24 Jan 2021 22:31:30 No.12623987 Report

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>>12623961
They're saying that string theorists would use Ramanujan summation to reach the result, but that it's absurd. They say even though they got the same result, they used an approach that makes physical sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Jan 2021 00:02:10 No.12624366 Report

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>>12623944
Mathematics is not about
>useful

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