ABSTRACT
Rejecting strange and counterintuitive hypotheses is not a bad reflex—although having an angered reaction to the mere exposure to these assumptions is more problematic. “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and enlightening them, but rather because these opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows familiar with it,” said physicist Max Planck. Exciting discussions then proliferate in the comments of David Louapre’s post. The most spectacular replica is that of Remi Peyre, which proves that “there is no linear, regular and stable method of summation of divergent series which makes it possible to give a finite value to the sum of the strictly positive integers. Among the events that struck most was the reading of a newspaper article in China, written in English. It discussed the death sentence of a business leader for illegal fundraising.
