Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part IV

446 Pages·2013·3.51 MB·English

by  George E. Andrews

George E. Andrews
Bruce C. Berndt
Ramanujan’s
Lost Notebook
Part IV
Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook

George E. Andrews • Bruce C. Berndt
Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook
Part IV
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GeorgeE.Andrews BruceC.Berndt
DepartmentofMathematics DepartmentofMathematics
ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity UniversityofIllinois
UniversityPark,PA,USA atUrbana-Champaign
Urbana,IL,USA
ISBN978-1-4614-4080-2 ISBN978-1-4614-4081-9(eBook)
DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-4081-9
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Appearinginthisphotographaretheparticipantsatthesecondmeetingof
the Indian Mathematical Society on 11–13 January 1919 in Bombay. Several
peopleimportantinthelifeofRamanujanarepictured.Sittingontheground
are(thirdfromleft)S.NarayanaAiyar,ChiefAccountantoftheMadrasPort
Trust Office, and (fourth from left) P.V. Seshu Aiyar, Ramanujan’s mathe-
matics instructor at the Government College of Kumbakonam. Sitting in the
chairs are (fifth from left) V. Ramaswami Aiyar, the founder of the Indian
MathematicalSociety,and(thirdfromright)R. RamachandraRao,whopro-
vided a stipend for Ramanujan for 15 months. Standing in the third row is
(secondfromleft)S.R. Ranganathan,whowrotethefirstbook-lengthbiogra-
phyofRamanujaninEnglish.Identificationsoftheremainderofthedelegates
in the photograph may be found in Volume 11 of the Journal of the Indian
Mathematical Society or [65, p. 27].
Reprinted with permission of the Indian Mathematical Society

It was not until today that I discovered at last what I had been so
long searching for. The treasurehidden here is greater than that of the
richest king in the world and to find it, the meaning of only one more
sign had to be deciphered.
—Rabindranath Tagore, “The Hidden Treasure”