Niels Henrik Abel Quote

With the exception of the geometric series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series whose sum has been determined rigorously.


In: Eli Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite (p. 29), Birkhäuser. 1987


With the exception of the geometric series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series whose sum has been determined...

With the exception of the geometric series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series whose sum has been determined...

With the exception of the geometric series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series whose sum has been determined...

With the exception of the geometric series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series whose sum has been determined...