Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook

This volume is the first of approximately four volumes devoted to providing statements, proofs, and discussions of all the claims made by Srinivasa Ramanujan in his lost notebook and all his other manuscripts and letters published with the lost notebook. In addition to the lost notebook, this publication contains copies of unpublished manuscripts in the Oxford library, in particular, his famous unpublished manuscript on the partition and tau-functions; fragments of both published and unpublished papers; miscellaneous sheets; and Ramanujan's letters to G. H. Hardy, written from nursing homes during Ramanujan's final two years in England. This volume contains accounts of 442 entries (counting multiplicities) made by Ramanujan in the aforementioned publication. The present authors have organized these claims into eighteen chapters, containing anywhere from two entries in Chapter 13 to sixty-one entries in Chapter 17.

"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 Beethoven's tenth symphony.

Inroduction.- Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction and Its Modular Properties.- Explicit Evaluations of the Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction.- A Fragment on the Rogers-Ramanujan and Cubic Continued Fractions.- The Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction and Its Connections with Partitions and Lambert Series.- Finite Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fractions.- Other q-continued Fractions.- Asymptotic Formulas for Continued Fractions.- Ramanujan's Continued Fraction for (q2;q3)?/(q;q3)?.- The Rogers-Fine Identity.- An Empirical Study of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.- Rogers-Ramanujan-Slater Type Identities.- Partial Fractions.- Hadamard Products for Two q-Series.- Integrals of Theta Functions.- Incomplete Elliptic Integrals.- Infinite Integrals of q-Products.- Modular Equations in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.- Fragments on Lambert Series.