Sujet : The Reimann "Zeta" function: How can it ever converge?
De : gazelle (at) *nospam* shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 25. Mar 2025, 20:15:55
Autres entêtes
Organisation : The official candy of the new Millennium
Message-ID : <vruvdb$mo0t$1@news.xmission.com>
User-Agent : trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010)
So I was reading in Wikipedia about the Zeta function, which is defined as:
Z(s) = 1/(1**s) + 1/(2**s) + 1/(3**s) + ...
Both the domain and range are specified as the complex numbers.
And it says that if s is a negative integers (-2, -4, -6, etc), then Z(s)
is zero. But that can't be right. But first, a little manipulation:
Suppose s is -2:
1/(n**s), where s = -2
is:
1/(1/(n**2))
is:
n**2
so, the sum is like:
1+4+9+16+25+...
Which just grows without bounds. And is certainly never zero.
So, is Wikipedia wrong? Or just a typo?
-- The randomly chosen signature file that would have appeared here is more than 4lines long. As such, it violates one or more Usenet RFCs. In order to remainin compliance with said RFCs, the actual sig can be found at the following URL: http://user.xmission.com/~gazelle/Sigs/Reaganomics