Definition:Absolutely Convergent Series/Real Numbers

Definition
Let $\displaystyle \sum_{n \mathop = 1}^\infty a_n$ be a series in the real number field $\R$.

Then $\displaystyle \sum_{n \mathop = 1}^\infty a_n$ is absolutely convergent :
 * $\displaystyle \sum_{n \mathop = 1}^\infty \left|{a_n}\right|$ is convergent

where $\size {a_n}$ denotes the absolute value of $a_n$.

Also see

 * Definition:Conditionally Convergent Series, the antithesis of absolutely convergent series.