How Ramanujan may have discovered the mock theta functions

George E. Andrews

doi:10.1098/rsta.2018.0436

How Ramanujan may have discovered the mock theta functions

George E. Andrews

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Mock theta functions appeared out of the blue in Ramanujan's last letter to Hardy. What would lead Ramanujan to consider the possibility of such functions in the first place? This paper seeks to provide a plausible answer to this question.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	20180436
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume	378
Issue number	2163
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0436
State	Published - Jan 24 2020

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