On a Claim of Ramanujan About Certain Hypergeometric Series David Bradley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract. We state and prove a claim of Ramanujan.
Hypergeometric series form an important part of the area of mathematics known as special functions.
In addition, the theory of hypergeometric series provides a unified approach to the problem of establishing identities involving binomial coefficient summations. In this theory, it is important to have closed form sums for as many series as possible. Our result contributes to the theory of hypergeometric series by providing a closed form sum for this class.