Rademacher-type formulas for restricted partition and overpartition functions (Q618846): Difference between revisions

The ``biographical anecdotes'' concern George Andrews. Among these: Andrews' experience at the University of Pennsylvania under the tutelage of \textit{H. Rademacher}; his reaction to Rademacher's surprising -- even to himself -- exact formula for the partition function [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 43, 241--254 (1937; JFM 63.0140.02, Zbl 0017.05503)]; George's famous and important discovery of Ramanujan's ``lost notebook'' at Cambridge in 1976; his proof, guided by the WZ method (1990), of Capparelli's conjecture (see Theorem 5, p. 260) in several evenings during the 1992 Rademacher Centenary Conference at Pennsylvania State University. The ``collection of Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher type formulas'' presented here includes work by \textit{P. Hagis} (1969), a Ph.D. student of Rademacher, A. Niven (1940) and, as well, many due to the author himself. (See, e.g. the bottom of p. 255.) Many others who have applied the Hardy-Ramanujan circle method to derive formulas of the type in question are cited at the bottom of p. 254. (H. Zuckerman might well have been cited, but he isn't.) A number of formulas due to the author are stated on pp. 258--259, with explanatory notation given on pp. 257--258. These are all connected with Rogers-Ramanujan type identities which appear in the lost notebook. The author believes these to be new to the literature.