num_pages: 254
description: Ramanujan occupies a unique place in analytic number his formulas, identities and calculations are still amazing mathematicians three-quarters of a century after his death. Many of his discoveries seem to have appeared as if from the ether. His mentor and primary collaborator was G.H. Hardy. Here, Hardy collects 12 of his own lectures on topics stemming from Ramanujan's life and work. The topics partitions, hypergeometric series, Ramanujan's tau-function and round numbers.
language: English
title: Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work
titlecomplete: Ramanujan: Twelve Lectures on Subjects Suggested by His Life and Work (Ams Chelsea Publishing)
genres: Mathematics
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Chelsea Pub Co