Ramanujan and Harish-Chandra

DOI10.1007/BF03024190MaRDI QIDQ2365833zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. Kumar Murty

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024190

zbMATH Keywords

discriminant functionHarish-ChandraRamanujanrepresentations of semisimple Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Indian mathematics (01A32) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of number theory (11-03) History of topological groups (22-03)

Review text

In 1916, Ramanujan began to study the discriminant function \[ \Delta(z)=e^{2\pi iz}\prod^ \infty_{n=1}(1-e^{2\pi inz})^{24}=\sum^ \infty_{n=1}\tau(n)e^{2\pi inz}. \] The author discusses the development and significance of the analytic and arithmetic properties of \(\Delta\), \(\tau\) and the associated Dirichlet series, and proceeds to treat Harish-Chandra's research on representations of semisimple Lie groups. The paper concludes with a comparison of the mathematical qualities of Ramanujan and Harish-Chandra, each exhibiting great individuality and intellectual power.

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