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Ramanujan's lost notebook

lost notebook Ramanujan's lost notebook is the manuscript in which the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan recorded the mathematical discoveries of the last year (1919–1920) of his life. Its whereabouts were unknown to all but a few mathematicians until it was rediscovered by George Andrews in 1976, in a box of effects of G.

[4] In his account, Andrews states that he was already an advanced researcher in fields, such as mock theta functions and hypergeometric series, related closely to works of Ramanujan. Slater "intriguingly" stated in her reply that she had inherited a "great collection" of papers from mathematicians such as Watson, Bailey, Jackson and Rogers, which were unsorted, including one of the last by Ramanujan. 66, Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, Washington, DC, ISBN 978-0-8218-0716-3, MR 0858826 Andrews, George E.; Berndt, Bruce C. (2005), Ramanujan's lost notebook.

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