引用一下 Greg Gbur 对于臭名昭著的 Numberphile 讲“所有正整数的和等于 -1/12”视频的评论.
“那么，为什么这一点很重要呢？我一直试图在这个博客上展示的部分观点是：数学和物理可能极其反直觉，甚至有些怪异，但一旦你熟悉了它们，就会发现其自有逻辑和规则，并且完全合情合理。在我看来，原始的视频更像一场魔术表演而非科学解释：它展示了一个奇特、不符合直觉的结果，并试图不加任何限定条件地将其作为绝对真理来呈现。把科学和数学弄得像无法理解的魔法一样，对于研究它们的科学家和渴望理解它们的公众来说，都没有任何好处。
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(So why is this important? Part of what I’ve tried to show on this blog is that mathematics and physics can be extremely non-intuitive, even bizarre, but that they have their own rules and logic that make perfect sense once you get familiar with them. The original video, in my opinion, acts more like a magic trick than an explanation: it shows a peculiar, non-intuitive result and tries to pass it off as absolute truth without qualification. Making science and math look like incomprehensible magic does not do any favors for the scientists who study it nor for the public who would like to understand it.)

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