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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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
mathematical manuscript
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notebook ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bruce C. Berndt
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George E. Andrews ⓘ
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George Andrews
Srinivasa Ramanujan ⓘ |
| author | Srinivasa Ramanujan ⓘ |
| cataloguedAs | part of the Ramanujan papers at Trinity College ⓘ |
| contains |
asymptotic expansions
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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ⓘ modular form related formulas ⓘ partition function formulas ⓘ q-series identities ⓘ theta function identities ⓘ unpublished results ⓘ |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
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George Andrews
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| discoveryYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Bruce C. Berndt
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George E. Andrews ⓘ
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George Andrews
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| field |
mathematics
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number theory ⓘ q-series ⓘ |
| hasPublication |
Ramanujan’s lost notebook
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part I
Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part II
Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part III
Ramanujan’s lost notebook self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part IV
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| influenced |
modern number theory
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partition theory ⓘ research on q-series ⓘ theory of mock modular forms ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advanced results decades ahead of their time
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large number of unproved but correct formulas ⓘ systematic treatment of mock theta functions ⓘ |
| pageCountApproximate | over 100 pages ⓘ |
| physicalLocation |
Trinity College Library, Cambridge
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Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
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| posthumous | true ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
mock theta functions
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mock theta conjectures
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| relatedWork |
Ramanujan’s lost notebook
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Notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan
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| timeGapBetweenCreationAndDiscovery | about 55 years ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Ramanujan’s notebooks
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part I
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part II
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part III
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Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook, Part IV
this entity surface form:
Notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan