Timeline for Are there Generalisations of a Limit (for Just-divergent Sequences)?
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| Jul 23, 2010 at 23:13 | vote | accept | Rhubbarb | ||
| Feb 4, 2010 at 21:23 | answer | added | user3035 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 4, 2010 at 20:51 | answer | added | Jose javier Garcia Moreta | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 10:10 | answer | added | Jose Brox | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 9:57 | comment | added | Kevin Buzzard | From the preface of Hardy's book: "Divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is shameful to base on them any demonstration whatsoever". Attributed to Abel. | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 3:24 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | Hardy's book is very good. I would have listed it as an answer, but really Mariano/lhf should, and I can vote their answers up. | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 2:56 | answer | added | Ari Shnidman | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 2:31 | answer | added | Armin Straub | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 0:29 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 13, 2009 at 0:24 | comment | added | lhf | You can read Hardy's book online at archive.org/details/divergentseries033523mbp | |
| Nov 12, 2009 at 23:51 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | There are much worse things you can read than G.H. Hardy's `Divergent Series'. | |
| Nov 12, 2009 at 23:51 | answer | added | Andy Putman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 12, 2009 at 23:47 | comment | added | Steven Sivek | Your example is the sequence of partial sums of the series (-1)^n, which is Cesaro summable to 1/2: see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesaro_summation. | |
| Nov 12, 2009 at 23:37 | history | asked | Rhubbarb | CC BY-SA 2.5 |