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George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt (Beteiligte)

Ramanujanīs Lost Notebook


Part IV
2013. 2015. xvii, 439 S. 235 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER NEW YORK; SPRINGER 2015
ISBN: 1-489-99175-1 (1489991751)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-489-99175-1 (9781489991751)

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____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, "Ramanujanīs lost notebook." Its discovery has frequently been deemed the mathematical equivalent of finding Beethovenīs tenth symphony.

This volume is the fourth of five volumes that the authors plan to write on Ramanujanīs lost notebook._ In contrast to the first three books on Ramanujanīs Lost Notebook, the fourth book does not focus on q-series. Most of the entries examined in this volume fall under the purviews of number theory and classical analysis. Several incomplete manuscripts of Ramanujan published by Narosa with the lost notebook are discussed. Three of the partial manuscripts are on diophantine approximation, and others are in classical Fourier analysis and prime number theory. Most of the entries in number theory fall under the umbrella of classical analytic number theory. Perhaps the most intriguing entries are connected with the classical, unsolved circle and divisor problems.

Review from the second volume:

"Fans of Ramanujanīs mathematics are sure to be delighted by this book. While some of the content is taken directly from published papers, most chapters contain new material and some previously published proofs have been improved. Many entries are just begging for further study and will undoubtedly be inspiring research for decades to come. The next installment in this series is eagerly awaited."

- MathSciNet

Review from the first volume:

"Andrews and Berndt are to be congratulated on the job they are doing. This is the first step...on the way to an understanding of the work of the genius Ramanujan. It should act as an inspiration to future generations of mathematicians to tackle a job that will never be complete."

- Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society_
Preface.- ___1 Introduction.- 2 Double Series of Bessel Functions and the Circle and Divisor Problems.- 3 Koshliakovīs Formula and Guinandīs Formula.- 4 Theorems Featuring the Gamma Function.- 5 Hypergeometric Series.- 6 Eulerīs Constant.- 7 Problems in Diophantine Approximation.- 8 Number Theory.- 9 Divisor Sums.- 10 Identities Related to the Riemann Zeta Function and Periodic Zeta Functions.- 11 Two Partial Unpublished Manuscripts on Sums Involving Primes.- 12 Infinite Series.- 13 A Partial Manuscript on Fourier and Laplace Transforms.- 14 Integral Analogues of Theta Functions adn Gauss Sums.- 15 Functional Equations for Products of Mellin Transforms.- 16 Infinite Products.- 17 A Preliminary Version of Ramanujanīs Paper, On the Integral __0^x tan^(-1)t)/t dt.- 18 A Partial Manuscript Connected with Ramanujanīs Paper, Some Definite Integrals.- 19 Miscellaneous Results in Analysis.- 20 Elementary Results.- 21 A Strange, Enigmatic Partial Manuscript.- Location Guide.- Provenance.- References.- Index.