On the paper “A ‘lost’ notebook of Ramanujan”
On the paper “A ‘lost’ notebook of Ramanujan”
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DOI:
10.1016/0001-8708(84)90027-6
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发表时间:
1984-09
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
R. Agarwal
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作者:
R. Agarwal
In a series of two recent papers Andrews [2, 31 has discussed an introduction to Ramanujan’s “lost” notebook (as he has called it) and has discussed, in detail, certain groups of formulae found in that notebook. In the second of the two papers Andrews’ has given several remarkable and ingeneous proofs for some of the Ramanujan’s tricky and mysterious identities. He has also given in his paper the application of some of these identities to partitions. The splendid work of Andrews has given a fresh impetus to research connected with unraveling the mysteries underlying Ramanujan’s work.One of the major results that Andrews has derived in [3] is given in his Theorem I (3.1) which he calls as the “key” result to proving many of Ramunajan’s identities for “partial” theta functions. In the concluding remarks of his paper Andrews [3] remarks that “it would be especially nice to place the fundamental Theorem I in an appropriate place in the literature of basic hypergeometric series identities. Such an achievement would undoubtedly lead to better explanation and further extension of partial theta functions.”