Download or read book Invitation To Q-series, An: From Jacobi's Triple Product Identity To Ramanujan's "Most Beautiful Identity" written by Hei-chi Chan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of these lecture notes is to provide a self-contained exposition of several fascinating formulas discovered by Srinivasa Ramanujan. Two central results in these notes are: (1) the evaluation of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction — a result that convinced G H Hardy that Ramanujan was a “mathematician of the highest class”, and (2) what G. H. Hardy called Ramanujan's “Most Beautiful Identity”. This book covers a range of related results, such as several proofs of the famous Rogers-Ramanujan identities and a detailed account of Ramanujan's congruences. It also covers a range of techniques in q-series.