Well-defined & Wonderful

Rearrangement of Series (with Fabian Gabel)


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In this episode, again with the help of Fabian's, we discuss changing the order of summation in an infinite, convergent series. As a possibly surprising effect we have that for some series changing this order of summation leads to a different limit or even to a divergent series. We discuss this effect in detail looking at the harmonic series with alternating signs -- a series we know converges by the Leibniz criterion. As an upshot of this episode we also learn that absolutely convergent series can be rearranged with no consequences on their respective limit behaviour.

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Well-defined & WonderfulBy profmoppi