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07/06/2001, 17:00 — 18:00 — Amphitheatre Pa1, Mathematics Building
George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University

Some things Ramanujan may have had up his sleeve

In referring to the first letter he received from the then unknown Indian genius, Ramanujan, G. H. Hardy remarked that ...it soon became obvious that Ramanujan must possess much more general theorems and was keeping a great deal up his sleeve.

I hope to describe some of the overwhelming mathematical surprises in Ramanujan's Notebooks (including the Lost Notebook) and to offer a few thoughts on how Ramanujan might have discovered some of his incredible identities.

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The Mathematics Colloquium is a series of monthly talks organized by the Department of Mathematics of IST, aiming to be a forum for the presentation of mathematical ideas or ideas about Mathematics. The Colloquium welcomes the participation of faculty, researchers and undergraduate or graduate students, of IST or other institutions, and is seen as an opportunity of bringing together and fostering the building up of ideas in an informal atmosphere.

Organizers: Conceição Amado, Lina Oliveira e Maria João Borges.