3blue1brownSums and Infinities
Audience:
This video is regarding multiple content regarding infinities, summations and set theory, made simple and brief and help the audience learn the concept easily. It includes AP, GP, HP, Block Stacking Problems, Ramanujan Summations and Cantor Diagonal Argument.
This video is aimed for middle school and early high school students.
Analytics
Comments
2
Very generic and saturated topic and no new ideas have been provided.
3.3
The audio quality was not good. Other than that, for a middle or high school audience I would be very careful about just assigning values to divergent series like that (1 - 1 + 1 - … = 1/2, 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 … = -1/12, etc). Some students struggle with the fundamentals and this may add more confusion.
4
It’s a collection of a lot of stuff. Maybe, it is a bit heavy for middle-school students to digest. It would be nice, if there was a connection between the different topics. It remains rather abstract.
5.2
Using progressively more complex sums to show that 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + … = -1/12