Ramanujan's lost notebook

Author(s)

• Andrews, George E.
• Berndt, Bruce C.

Bibliographic Information

Ramanujan's lost notebook

George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt

Springer, c2005-

• pt. 1
• pt. 2
• pt. 3
• pt. 4
• pt. 5

Note

"This volume is the first of approximately four volumes devoted to the examination of all claims made by Srinivasa Ramanujan in the Lost notebook and other unpublished papers."--Pref. of pt. 1

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

pt. 1 ISBN 9780387255293

Description

In the library at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1976, George Andrews of Pennsylvania State University discovered a sheaf of pages in the handwriting of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Soon designated as "Ramanujan's Lost Notebook," it contains considerable material on mock theta functions and undoubtedly dates from the last year of Ramanujan's life. In this book, the notebook is presented with additional material and expert commentary.

Table of Contents

• Preface.- Introduction.- The Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction and Its Modular Properties.- Explicit Evaluations of the Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction.- A Fragment on the Rogers-Ramanujan and Cubic Continued Fractions.- The Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction and Its Connections with Partitions and Lambert Series.- Finite Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fractions.- Other q-continued Fractions.- Asymptotic Formulas for Continued Fractions.- Ramanujan's Continued Fraction for (q2
• q3)8/(q
• q3)8.- The Rogers-Fine Identity.- An Empirical Study of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.- Rogers-Ramanujan-Slater Type Identities.- Partial Fractions.- Hadamard Products for Two q-Series.- Integrals of Theta-functions.- Incomplete Elliptic Integrals.- Infinite Integrals of q-Products.- Modular Equations in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.- Fragments on Lambert Series.- Location Guide.- Provenance.- References.- Index.

Volume

pt. 2 ISBN 9780387777658

Description

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." The "lost notebook" contains considerable material on mock theta functions and so undoubtedly emanates from the last year of Ramanujan's life. It should be emphasized that the material on mock theta functions is perhaps Ramanujan's deepest work.

Table of Contents

• The Heine Transformation.- The Sears#x2013
• Thomae Transformation.- Bilateral Series.- Well-Poised Series.- Bailey#x02019
• s Lemma and Theta Expansions.- Partial Theta Functions.- Special Identities.- Theta Function Identities.- Ramanujan#x02019
• s Cubic Analogue of the Classical Ramanujan#x2013
• Weber Class Invariants.- Miscellaneous Results on Elliptic Functions and Theta Functions.- Formulas for the Power Series Coefficients of Certain Quotients of Eisenstein Series.- Two Letters on Eisenstein Series Written from Matlock House.- Eisenstein Series and Modular Equations.- Series Representable in Terms of Eisenstein Series.- Eisenstein Series and Approximations to #x03C0
• .- Miscellaneous Results on Eisenstein Series.

Volume

pt. 3 ISBN 9781461438090

Description

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

Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Ranks and Cranks, Part I.- 2. Ranks and Cranks, Part II.- 3. Ranks and Cranks, Part III.- 4. Ramanujan's Unpublished Manuscript on the Partition and Tau Functions.- 5. Theorems about the Partition Function on Pages 189 and 182.- 6. Congruences for Generalized Tau Functions on Page 178.- 7. Ramanujan's Forty Identities for the Rogers-Ramanujan Functions.- 8. Circular Summation.- 9. Highly Composite Numbers.- Scratch Work.- Location Guide.- Provenance.- References.

Volume

pt. 4 ISBN 9781461440802

Description

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 fourth of five volumes that the authors plan to write on Ramanujan's lost notebook. In contrast to the first three books on Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, the fourth book does not focus on q-series. Most of the entries examined in this volume fall under the purviews of number theory and classical analysis. Several incomplete manuscripts of Ramanujan published by Narosa with the lost notebook are discussed. Three of the partial manuscripts are on diophantine approximation, and others are in classical Fourier analysis and prime number theory. Most of the entries in number theory fall under the umbrella of classical analytic number theory. Perhaps the most intriguing entries are connected with the classical, unsolved circle and divisor problems. 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 and 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

Table of Contents

Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Double Series of Bessel Functions and the Circle and Divisor Problems.- 3 Koshliakov's Formula and Guinand's Formula.- 4 Theorems Featuring the Gamma Function.- 5 Hypergeometric Series.- 6 Euler's Constant.- 7 Problems in Diophantine Approximation.- 8 Number Theory.- 9 Divisor Sums.- 10 Identities Related to the Riemann Zeta Function and Periodic Zeta Functions.- 11 Two Partial Unpublished Manuscripts on Sums Involving Primes.- 12 Infinite Series.- 13 A Partial Manuscript on Fourier and Laplace Transforms.- 14 Integral Analogues of Theta Functions adn Gauss Sums.- 15 Functional Equations for Products of Mellin Transforms.- 16 Infinite Products.- 17 A Preliminary Version of Ramanujan's Paper, On the Integral _0^x tan^(-1)t)/t dt.- 18 A Partial Manuscript Connected with Ramanujan's Paper, Some Definite Integrals.- 19 Miscellaneous Results in Analysis.- 20 Elementary Results.- 21 A Strange, Enigmatic Partial Manuscript.- Location Guide.- Provenance.- References.- Index.

Volume

pt. 5 ISBN 9783319778327

Description

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 fifth and final installment of the authors' examination of Ramanujan's lost notebook focuses on the mock theta functions first introduced in Ramanujan's famous Last Letter. This volume proves all of the assertions about mock theta functions in the lost notebook and in the Last Letter, particularly the celebrated mock theta conjectures. Other topics feature Ramanujan's many elegant Euler products and the remaining entries on continued fractions not discussed in the preceding volumes. 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 and 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

Table of Contents

Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Third Order Mock Theta Functions: Elementary Identities.- 3. Fifth Order Mock Theta Functions: Elementary Identities.- 4. Third Order Mock Theta Functions: Partial Fraction Expansions.- 5. The Mock Theta Conjectures: Equivalence.- 6. Fifth Order Mock Theta Functions: Proof of the Mock Theta Conjectures.- 7. Sixth Order Mock Theta Functions.- 8. Tenth Order Mock Theta Functions. Part I, The First Four Identities.- 9. Tenth Order Mock Theta Functions: Part II, Identities for phi10(q), psi10(q).- 10. Tenth Order Mock Theta Functions: Part III, Identities for ch10(q), kh10(q).- 11. Tenth Order Mock Theta Functions. Part IV.- 12. Transformation Formulas: 10th Order Mock Theta Functions.- 13. Two Identities Involving a Mordell Integral and Appel-Lerch Sums.- 14. Ramanujan's Last Letter to Hardy.- 15. Euler Products in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.- 16. Continued Fractions.- 17. Recent Work on Mock Theta Functions.- 18. Commentary on and Corrections to the First Four Volumes.- 19. The Continuing Mystery.- Location Guide.- Provenance.- References.- Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA72533963
• ISBN:
  • 9780387255293
  • 9780387777658
  • 9781461438090
  • 9781461440802
  • 9783319778327
• LCCN: 2005923547
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920