Significance of the Ramanujan summation

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I wanted to know how the Ramanujan series works only using basic calculus. Why is it a shocking fact for the sum of an infinite series to be $-\frac1{12}$? How is it important to us and how does it change our perspective towards mathematics? Have his theories ever been proved wrong? I'm sorry for ranting, but this topic intrigues me and I couldn't find any satisfactory answers on google.