Numberphile v. Math: the truth about

Confused 1+2+3+1, 12 comments originating from that infamous Numberphile video keep flooding the comment sections of my and other math YouTubers videos. And so I think its time to have another serious go at setting the record straight by having a really close look at the bizarre calculation at the center of the Numberphile video, to state clearly what is wrong with it, how to fix it, and how to reconnect it to the genuine math that the Numberphile professors had in mind originally. This is my second attempt at doing this topic justice. This video is partly in response to feedback that I got on my first video. What a lot of you were interested in were more details about the analytic continuation business and the strange Numberphile, Ramanujan calculations. Responding to these requests, in this video I am taking a very different approach from the first video and really go all out and don t hold back in any respect. The result is a video that is a crazy (almost 42 :) minutes long. Lots of amazing