Tuesday, 10 October 2017

Sum of alternating harmonic series

Edit: As @FamousBlueRaincoat pointed out below, this question was based on an error in a wikipedia article.



The Wikipedia article on the harmonic series gives the following "proof without words" that the alternating harmonic series 11/2+1/31/4+ converges to log(2):

(1/1)(1/11/2)+(1/2)(2/32/4)+(1/4)(4/54/6+4/74/8)+=log(2).



Can anyone explain why the sum on the left is log(2)? I don't see it right now.



Edit: my goal is specifically to understand this "proof without words" that the alternating harmonic series converges to log(2).

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