It sounds impossible. But it turns out that infinity minus infinity doesn’t necessarily equal zero. It can equal Pi, or 3.14159265359. Or so demonstrates the “Mathologer” in the video featured above.
In real life the Mathologer goes by the name of Burkard Polster, and he’s a math professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. You can check out more of his videos on YouTube here.
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the name of the note is quite missleading.
You didn’t take the name of the real maths superhero ‘Srnivasa Ramanujan’ who is behind the discovery of pi. Hats off to the Indian genius. I didn’t like it. Moreover, your information was good.🤗