Overview: Most of this material has never before been published in book form.Includes letters to G.H. Hardy.Authors have organized, and provided commentary on, Ramanujan‘s results.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 Be
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