Ramanujan’s lost notebook

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Ramanujan’s lost notebook is a posthumously discovered collection of Srinivasa Ramanujan’s final mathematical formulas and insights, many of which were decades ahead of their time in number theory and q-series.

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instanceOf mathematical manuscript
notebook
associatedWith Bruce C. Berndt
George E. Andrews
surface form: George Andrews

Srinivasa Ramanujan
author Srinivasa Ramanujan
cataloguedAs part of the Ramanujan papers at Trinity College
contains asymptotic expansions
continued fraction formulas
elliptic function formulas
mathematical formulas
mock theta functions
modular form related formulas
partition function formulas
q-series identities
theta function identities
unpublished results
countryOfOrigin India
dateOfCreation circa 1919–1920
discoveredAt Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
discoveredBy George E. Andrews
surface form: George Andrews
discoveryYear 1976
editedBy Bruce C. Berndt
George E. Andrews
surface form: George Andrews
field mathematics
number theory
q-series
hasPublication Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part I

Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part II

Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part III

Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part IV
influenced modern number theory
partition theory
research on q-series
theory of mock modular forms
language English
notableFor advanced results decades ahead of their time
large number of unproved but correct formulas
systematic treatment of mock theta functions
pageCountApproximate over 100 pages
physicalLocation Trinity College Library, Cambridge
surface form: Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
posthumous true
relatedTo mock theta functions
surface form: mock theta conjectures
relatedWork Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
surface form: Notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan
timeGapBetweenCreationAndDiscovery about 55 years

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Srinivasa Ramanujan notableWork Ramanujan’s lost notebook
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Ramanujan theta function appearsIn Ramanujan’s lost notebook
mock theta functions relatedTo Ramanujan’s lost notebook
Ramanujan’s lost notebook hasPublication Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part I
Ramanujan’s lost notebook hasPublication Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part II
Ramanujan’s lost notebook hasPublication Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part III
Ramanujan’s lost notebook hasPublication Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part IV
Ramanujan’s lost notebook relatedWork Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan