Ramanujan's lost notebook
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In mathematics, Ramanujan's lost notebook is the manuscript in which Ramanujan recorded the discoveries of the last year of his life. It was rediscovered by George Andrews, in 1976 in a box of effects of G. N. Watson stored at the Trinity College Wren Library in Cambridge University.
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After Ramanujan died on April 26, 1920 his widow gave his notebooks to the University of Madras. On August 30, 1923, the registrar Francis Drewsbury sent much of this material to G. H. Hardy, probably including the lost notebook. Some time between 1934 and 1947 Hardy passed the notebook on to G. N. Watson. After Watson's death in 1965, R. A. Rankin examined Watson's papers (which were a complete mess, apparently due to be incinerated in a few days) and found Ramanujan's notebook, which he sent to Trinity College library on December 26, 1968. George Andrews found the lost notebook in the spring of 1976 while on a visit to Trinity College, and it was finally published on December 22, 1987 by Narosa publishing house.
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- Andrews, George E. (1979). "An introduction to Ramanujan's "lost" notebook". American Math Monthly 86 (2): 89-108.
- Andrews, George E. (2005). Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: Part I. Springer-Verlag New York, LLC. ISBN 038725529X.
- Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1988). The lost notebook and other unpublished papers. Springer-Verlag, Berlin; Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. ISBN 354018726X.
