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The celebrated Rogers-Ramanujan identities are familiar in two forms [52; pp. 33-48]. First as series-product identities:
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Andrews, G.E. (1989). On the Proofs of the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities. In: Stanton, D. (eds) q-Series and Partitions. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 18. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0637-5_1
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