The best A – A ≠ 0 paradox

This video is about a new stunning visual resolution of a very pretty and important paradox that I stumbled across while I was preparing the last video on logarithms. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Paradox 03:52 Visual sum = ln(2) 07:58 Pi 11:00 Gelfond’s number 14:22 Pi exactly 17:35 Riemann’s rearrangement theorem 22:40 Thanks! Riemann rearrangement theorem. This page features a different way to derive the sums of those nice m positive/n negative term arrangements of the alternating harmonic series by expressing H(n) the sum of the first n harmonic numbers by ln(n) and the Euler–Mascheroni constant. That could also be made into a very nice visual proof along the lines that I follow in this video Gelfond’s number e^π being approximate equal to 20 π may not be a complete coincidence after all: @mathfromalphatoomega There’
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