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Third volume of a series of five volumes including some of Ramanujan's deepest work in the last year of his life
Contains material of which mathematicians currently lack a complete understanding
Focuses on the ordinary partition function p(n), including ranks, cranks, and congruences for p(n)
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In the spring of 1976, George Andrews of Pennsylvania State University visited the library at Trinity College, Cambridge to examine the papers of the late G.N. Watson. Among these papers, Andrews discovered a sheaf of 138 pages in the handwriting of Srinivasa Ramanujan. This manuscript was soon designated, "Ramanujan's lost notebook." Its discovery has frequently been deemed the mathematical equivalent of finding Beethoven's tenth symphony.
This volume is the third of five volumes that the authors plan to write on Ramanujan’s lost notebook and other manuscripts and fragments found in The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers, published by Narosa in 1988. The ordinary partition function p(n) is the focus of this third volume. In particular, ranks, cranks, and congruences for p(n) are in the spotlight. Other topics include the Ramanujan tau-function, the Rogers–Ramanujan functions, highly composite numbers, and sums of powers of theta functions.
Review from the second volume:
"Fans of Ramanujan's mathematics are sure to be delighted by this book. While some of the content is taken directly from published papers, most chapters contain new material and some previously published proofs have been improved. Many entries are just begging for further study and will undoubtedly be inspiring research for decades to come. The next installment in this series is eagerly awaited."
- MathSciNet
Review from the first volume:
"Andrews a
nd Berndt are to be congratulated on the job they are doing. This is the first step...on the way to an understanding of the work of the genius Ramanujan. It should act as an inspiration to future generations of mathematicians to tackle a job that will never be complete."- Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society
Authors and Affiliations
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, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
George E. Andrews
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, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Bruce C. Berndt
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
Book Subtitle: Part III
Authors: George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3810-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3809-0Published: 11 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9497-4Published: 17 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3810-6Published: 08 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 436
Topics: Number Theory