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Chapter 4 of Ramanujan's Second Notebook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Bruce C. Berndt  and
B. M. Wilson
Bruce C. Berndt
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.
B. M. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

The purpose of this paper is to examine the content of Chapter 4 of Ramanujan's second notebook. The first half of this chapter is on iterates of the exponential function. The second half focuses upon an interesting formal procedure which Ramanujan, in particular, used in the theory of integral transforms.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 89 , Issue 1-2 , 1981 , pp. 87 - 109
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1981

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