Meanings
nounRamanujan summation (uncountable)
- uncountablemathematicsA technique for assigning a value to an infinite divergent series, not summation in the traditional sense, but having useful mathematical properties.
Origin
Invented by the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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