Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers
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- Title
- Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers
- Author
- G E Andrews
- Publication year listed
- 1920
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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- Free online reader; no registration required
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About this book
Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers
Author: Srinivasa Ramanujan
Year: 1920
The so-called "Lost Notebook" of S.R. Ramanujan was brought to light in 1976 as part of the Watson bequest, by G.E. Andrews with whose introduction this collection of unpublished manuscripts opens. A major portion of the "Lost Notebook" - really just 90 unpaginated sheets of work on "q"-series and other topics - is reproduced here in facsimile. Letters from Ramanujan to Hardy as well as various other sheets of seemingly related notes are then included, on topics including coefficients in the 1/q3 and 1/q2 problems and the mock theta functions. The next 180 pages consist of unpublished manuscripts of Ramanujan, including 28 pages from the 'Loose Papers held in the Trinity College Library. Finally a number of interesting letters that were exchanged between Ramanujan, Littlewood, Hardy and Watson, with a bearing on Ramanujan's work are collected together here with other extracts and fragments.