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In a famous paper of 1914 Ramanujan gave a list of 17 extraordinary formulas for the number \(1/\pi \). In this paper we explain a general method to prove them, based on some ideas of James Wan and some of our own ideas.
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I am grateful to Shaun Cooper for very interesting questions related to the method used.
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Guillera, J. A method for proving Ramanujan’s series for \(1/\pi \). Ramanujan J 52, 421–431 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-018-0113-9
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