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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817652703321

Autore

Hei-Chi Chan

Titolo

An invitation to q-series : from Jacobi's triple product identity to Ramanujan's "most beautiful identity" / / by Hei-Chi Chan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-23505-6

9786613235053

981-4343-85-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

515.243

Soggetti

q-series

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Jacobi's triple product identity -- pt. 2. The Rogers-Ramanujan identitites -- pt. 3. The Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction -- pt. 4. From the "most beautiful identity" to Ramanujan's congruences.

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of these lecture notes is to provide a self-contained exposition of several fascinating formulas discovered by Srinivasa Ramanujan. Two central results in these notes are: (1) the evaluation of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction - a result that convinced G H Hardy that Ramanujan was a "mathematician of the highest class", and (2) what G. H. Hardy called Ramanujan's "Most Beautiful Identity". This book covers a range of related results, such as several proofs of the famous Rogers-Ramanujan identities and a detailed account of Ramanujan's congruences. It also covers a range of techn