| ▲ | seanhunter 20 hours ago | |
I love the fact he mentioned the Riemann rearrangement theorem [1] briefly in his examples about analysis. That is (in my opinion) one of the coolest and least intuitive consequences of infinities. Requires some intro to different types of convergence to fully appreciate. More about the theorem here if you’re interested. [2] Weird as it seems it’s definitely true and one of the things you would prove in a typical undergrad sequence on analysis. [1] https://youtu.be/OOMx2BHHWtE?is=M1lqZI2gxNqWqg6G&t=18m35s [2] Formally, I think the normal way to state the theorem is if you have an infinite series of real numbers which is “conditionally convergent”[3], then the terms can be rearranged so that the sum converges to any arbitrary real number, or diverges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theorem [3] Meaning it converges but does not converge absolutely. a_n = 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + … is an example of such a series. It converges but if you take sum of the absolute values of each term you get the harmonic series which does not coverge. | ||
| ▲ | tim-kt 14 hours ago | parent [-] | |
You can also think of conditional convergence as convergence under the condition of a specific order. It then turns out that unconditional convergence (that is, convergence where it doesn't matter what order you choose) is equivalent to absolute convergence (that is, the sum over the absolute values converges). | ||