A proof of $\displaystyle \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac 1{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}6$ is described in a youtube video that I may find and post later today, after it appeared in a paper that I may cite here later today, so I'll let this present posting serve as a reminder to get back to this when I have more time.
This involves a one-to-two correspondence.
It goes like this. First observe that the proposition to be proved is easily seen to be equivalent to $\displaystyle \sum_{\text{odd } n\,\in\,\mathbb Z} \frac 1{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}4. $
Next, approximate this list sum by the sum of squares of the reciprocals of the distances from $0$ of certain points on the circle of circumference $2^n$ that touches the line $y=0$ in the plane $(x,y)\in\mathbb R^2$ at the point $(0,0).$ Those specified points are the those whose distance measured along the circle from $(0,0)$ is an odd integer.
The central lemma is that if $n$ increases by $1,$ then that sum does not change. This reduces the problem to the the case $n=1,$ and in that case the sum is $\pi^2/4.$
The proof of the lemma is from secondary-school geometry: Through each of the specified points draw the line through the very top of the circle. That line intersects the next circle, the case $n+1,$ at two points. Show that the sum of the squares of the reciprocals of the distances from those two points to $(0,0)$ is equal to the reciprocal of the square of the distance to $(0,0)$ from the point you started with. $\quad\blacksquare$