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Professor Negele (8.322)

ryanb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ryanb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 13 14:22:07 1996

"One of the bits of sophistication you need to develop as a physicist
is to realize that divergent series are fine -- you just need to learn
how to deal with them responsibly."

Then he discussed why one should _expect_ all physically interesting
perturbation expansions to diverge!



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