Why -1/12 is a gold nugget

2014-03-18

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Featuring Professor Edward Frenkel. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓

Okay, the links...

1. New vid on the Riemann Hypothesis explains where -1/12 comes from: /youtube/video/d6c6uIyieoo

2.The original videos at /youtube/video/w-I6XTVZXww AND /youtube/video/E-d9mgo8FGk

3. A useful blog from Tony Padilla: http://bit.ly/TonyResponse

4. NY Times article on this: http://nyti.ms/1iftqSv

5. Terry Tao on this topic: http://bit.ly/TaoAnalytic

Prof Edward Frenkel's book Love and Math: http://amzn.to/1g6XP6j

Professor Frenkel is a mathematics professor at the University of California, Berkeley - http://edwardfrenkel.com

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