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Chapter 2 of Ramanujan's second notebook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Bruce C. Berndt ,
Padmini T. Joshi  and
B. M. Wilson
Bruce C. Berndt
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.
Padmini T. Joshi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 47306, U.S.A.
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When Ramanujan died in 1920 he left behind three notebooks containing statements of a few thousand theorems, mostly without proofs. The second notebook is an enlarged edition of the first, and the third is short and fragmentary. Thus our primary attention may be directed toward the second notebook. In the decade following Ramanujan's death, G. N. Watson and B. M. Wilson agreed to perform the enormous task of editing the notebooks. Unfortunately, this task was never completed, possibly, in part, due to the premature death of Wilson in 1935. In 1957, a photostat edition [19] of the notebooks was published, but no editing whatsoever was undertaken.

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Research Article
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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , July 1981 , pp. 199 - 216
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1981

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