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The Harmonic Series Diverges

The partial sums of the harmonic series are not bounded above, so the series does not converge.

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, natural numbers mm are read in R\mathbb{R} through the canonical map fixed there, and convergence of a series of real numbers is as defined there. The set {∑m=1M1m:M∈N}\bigl\{\sum_{m=1}^{M}\tfrac{1}{m}:M\in\mathbb{N}\bigr\} is not bounded above; in particular the series ∑m=1∞1m\sum_{m=1}^{\infty}\tfrac1m does not converge.

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