This is a fun one, because of course the kneejerk rejection of the statement "1+2+3+4+5+... = -1/12" is correct Under everyday, ordinary grade-school arithmetic, the answer can't be "-1/12" -- but the answer can't be any other number either, the operation itself is not possiblehttps://twitter.com/tomgabion/status/1289857027381002241 …
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There’s also aleph null, the smallest infinity.
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Cantor can have little a infinity, as a treat
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(Sort of supporting the point Spengler would later make about "infinity" being a peculiarly European Christian cultural concept, Cantor was a *very* devout Christian who saw his mathematics as a logical extension of the whole "Can God make a rock so big he can't lift it" stuff)
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He was kind of caught between worlds here, because the other mathematicians -- most of whom weren't particularly devout -- often thought of his work as a weird waste of time, while the Church didn't understand what he was talking about and thought it sounded like witchcraft
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